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"Plan of a proposed canal from Downham Reach to Ipswich and other improvements",...

Catalogue reference: EL1/7/3/1

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EL1/7/3/1
Title
"Plan of a proposed canal from Downham Reach to Ipswich and other improvements", by William Chapman, engineer; Scale: 80 yds. to 1 in.
Date
1797
Description

Course of river Orwell from marshes above Stoke Bridge to Downham Reach, showing proposed "floating dock", store yards, canal and alterations to course of river; copy signed John Chevallier Cobbold; numbered 1 and, on the dorse, 196) original 1797

Copy n.d. [early 19century]

Held by
Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Language
English
Physical condition
188 cm. x 76 cm., paper, ink and wash, coloured
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7c5411c9-2c1d-48d1-8b90-07fb3f98c8b5/

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EL1/7/3

River channel: sections, soundings etc.

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"Plan of a proposed canal from Downham Reach to Ipswich and other improvements", by William Chapman, engineer; Scale: 80 yds. to 1 in.