Summary
The story of how one West town lost out to its neighbour in the great canal boom of the early 19th Century is the subject of a new book which has been published this week.
Historian Ray Alder has revealed how Chippenham battled unsuccessfully with Devizes to secure the new "Western Canal", which was being dug to link London with the west coast at Bristol in the first years of the 1800s.See the full content of this document
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Historian Documents the Great Canal Battle
Local politicians, business chiefs and financiers from Devizes suc...
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