Canals of Yorkshire and North East England

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Authoritative account of canals and their development in Yorkshire and North East, 18th century to 1972, with a focus on individual canals. Also much on canal carrying; distribution of commodities such as coal, corn, wool, textiles, limestone, timber, etc; and private tramroads built to link mines, quarries, etc, to the canals. The two volumes are structured in three parts: Part 1] 'To 1790' - 'The old navigation' / 'Upwards from Wakefield' / 'The Don Navigation' / 'To Driffield and Weighton' / 'From Ouse to Tyne'; Part 2] '1790-1845' - 'The Aire & Calder flourishes' / 'Growth after Goole' / 'The Barnsley Canal' / 'The Calder & Hebble' / 'The busy Don' / 'The Sheffield Canal' / 'Satellites of the Don' / 'Hull and Humber' / 'The Ouse to York' / 'North from York'; Part 3] - '1845-1972' - 'To Bartholomew and beyond' / 'The Calder & Hebble and the Barnsley' / 'The Sheffield & South Yorkshire' / 'East Riding Waterways'; 'Along the Ouse' / 'Epilogue'. Appendices include 'Summary of facts about canals and navigations of Yorkshire and the North East' [pp474-84]