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[An] answer to Mr. Fords booke : entituled A designe for bringing a navigable river, from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire to St. Giles in the fields.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, W., Sir
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Printed at London : [publisher not identified], 1641.
Series:Early English books online.
Subjects:
Ford, Edward, > Sir, > 1605-1670. > Designe for bringing a navigable river from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire, to St. Giles in the Fields > Early works to 1800.
Designe for bringing a navigable river from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire, to St. Giles in the Fields > Early works to 1800.
Inland navigation > England > Early works to 1800.
Canals > Design and construction > Early works to 1800.
Lea River (Bedfordshire-Middlesex, England) > Navigation > Early works to 1800.
Colne River (Hertfordshire-Middlesex, England) > Navigation > Early works to 1800.
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Description
Item Description:By Sir Walter Roberts. Another edition has the author's name on the title page.
A plan to improve navigation on the river Lea, from Stanstead, Essex, to London. Sir Edward Ford's "A designe for bringing a navigable river from Rickmansworth ..", published in 1641, concerned canal building adjacent to the river Colne (compare Wing (2nd edition) F1519).
Copy cropped at head affecting title.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([14] pages, [1] leaf of plates : map (folded)