The Parrett Navigation Company was formed to improve river navigation on the River Parrett, Ivelchester and Langport Navigation and linked waterways....

The River Parrett flows through the counties of Dorset and Somerset in South West England, from its source in the Thorney Mills springs in the hills around...

continued to use the river. The Parrett Navigation Act, which was obtained in 1836, authorised improvements to the River Parrett below Langport, the construction...

the River Parrett, as the canal still transports drinking water for the people of Bridgwater. Prior to the building of the canal, navigation between the...

built by the Parrett Navigation Company, a trading Company owned by Vincent Stuckey and Walter Bagehot, on the banks of the River Parrett. When the river...

Finally, it flows into the River Parrett at Burrowbridge. An act of Parliament granted in 1699, the River Tone Navigation Act 1698 (10 Will. 3. c. 8) authorised...

November 2015. Greenfield, David. "Chapter 6 The Inception of the Parrett Navigation Company. I.K. Brunel and William Gravatt, 1826-1841" (PDF). University...

Broadmead, a solicitor with shares in the Parrett Navigation Company and the Ivelchester and Langport Navigation, who demolished a large proportion of the...

as Harbour Authority for the Port of Bridgwater and the River Parrett Sleaford Navigation Ulster Canal - various, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic...

Bank of England itself. Stuckey died at Langport on 8 May 1845. Parrett Navigation Company Vincent Stuckey. Royal Bank of Scotland. Retrieved 19 August 2015...

over control of the River Parrett. Despite a petition against closure by local people, the Commissioners ruled that navigation of the canal must cease due...

Navigation and Quays Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. lxxxix) it extends from Brean Down to Hinkley Point in Bridgwater Bay, and parts of the rivers Parrett (to...

Broadmead, a solicitor with shares in the Parrett Navigation Company and the Ivelchester and Langport Navigation, demolished a large portion of the building...

Parliament in 1836, on Brunel's recommendation, the newly incorporated Parrett Navigation Company engaged Gravatt as their engineer on the Westport Canal in June...

Glastonbury to Highbridge in Somerset, England, where it entered the River Parrett and from there the Bristol Channel. The canal was authorised by Parliament...

bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the north by the rivers Axe and Brue. The Mendip Hills...

level and well-wooded country. The town lies along both sides of the River Parrett; it has been a major inland port and trading centre since the industrial...

A378, is a three-arched bridge, constructed under the terms of the Parrett Navigation Act of 1836. Completed in 1841 at a cost of £3,749, it replaced the...

Avon, which flows through Bath and then Bristol, and the Axe, Brue, and Parrett, which drain the Levels. There is evidence of Paleolithic human occupation...

line for a year while the Somerset Bridge was constructed over the River Parrett; the line was extended to Taunton on 1 June 1842. During the period that...

national nature reserves such as Bridgwater Bay at the mouth of the River Parrett. At low tide large parts of the channel become mud flats due to the tidal...

Rivers Mercy and Irwell Navigation Act 1720 (7 Geo. 1. St. 1. c. 15) The Company of Proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. (12 Geo. 2. c. ?) (15...

row focused on the flooding of the Somerset Levels and whether the River Parrett should be dredged. The Environment Agency, responsible for main river maintenance...

"compulsory secrecy" for new ideas under the Invention Secrecy Act. James W. Parrett Jr. of the William & Mary Law School has argued that the Invention Secrecy...

Militia Act 1786 (26 Geo. 3. c. 107) River Navigation Act 1664 (16 & 17 Cha. 2. c. 13 Pr.) River Itching Navigation Act 1766 (7 Geo. 3. c. 87) Insolvent Debtors'...

bridges over the River Parrett and River Yeo before the Battle of Langport. In 1795 work began on the Ivelchester and Langport Navigation, a canal linking Ilchester...

4 & 1 Will. 4. c. liv) Hungerford Market Company Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. lxx) Newry Navigation Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. cxxvi) Newton Bushell...

old name for Brighton. (34 Geo. 3. c. 102) Bristol and Taunton Canal Navigation Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. lx) (4 Geo. 4. c. l) Londonderry Bridge Act 1790...

cxxv) Perth Harbour and Tay Navigation Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. cxxi) Perth Port and Harbour and Tay Navigation Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4. c....

Navigation onwards from Taunton was via the River Tone and the River Parrett. Construction did not start immediately. Finally in 1810, work started...