Series
Grimsby Haven Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 835
Date: 1796-1840
Minutes of the Grimsby Haven Company.
Series
River Derwent Navigation Commissioners
Catalogue reference: RAIL 820
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RAIL 820
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- RAIL 820
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Title (The name of the record)
- River Derwent Navigation Commissioners
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1701-1890
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of miscellaneous books and records, correspondence and relevant papers, deeds, agreements, specifications, estimates and plans.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- DER.
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 109 files and volumes
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- Topics
- Canals and river transport
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By Act passed "at Parliament begun at Westminster thirtieth day of December Anno. Dom. 1701 in thirteenth year of our late Sovereign Lord King William the Third; and from thence continued to eighth day of March in first year of our Sovereign Lady Anne ...." (Act 1 Anne, Ch. 20 RA 6th May 1702) certain persons were authorised and empowered to make River Darwent navigable and certain persons were constituted and appointed Commissioners.
Navigation was purchased by North Eastern Railway Company as from 1st May 1855.
North Eastern Railway, Hull and Barnsley Railway and Hull Joint Dock Committee were dissolved and united into one company by name North Eastern Railway Company as from 1st April 1922 by virtue of North Eastern and Hull and Barnsley railway companies Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 1st April 1922. This North Eastern Railway Company became part of London and North Eastern Railway Company as from 1st January 1923 under North Eastern, Eastern and East Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 30th December, 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13008/
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River Derwent Navigation Commissioners
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