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British Waterways - Weaver Navigation Files
Description
The records original filing order has been retained
Date
1778-1958
Reference code
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Extent & medium
70 boxes
Provenance
Records received from the former offices of the Weaver Navigation Northwich, Cheshire
Associated material
Cheshire and Chester record Office: River Weaver Navigation (ref LNW).
Further material relating to the Navigation will be found amongst the Quarter Sessions records, County Council records and the papers of Messrs Chambers & Co of Northwich, (ref DCN) who were solicitors to the Trustees for many years.
A full account of the origin and development of the Navigation is given in T S Willan The Navigation of the River Weaver in the Eighteenth Century (Chetham Society, Third Series, vol III, 1951)