The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal
£8.95
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As well as providing much historical background, this book acts as a complete catalogue of the interesting buildings and structures alongside the Montgomery Canal in Wales. The book covers the construction and line of the canal, the waterway economy, the trade installations, the canal workforce and their housing, canal generated industry and the waterway settlements. The facts and figures are accompanied by a range of archive phots, diagrams and maps.
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The Montgomery canal has frequently been called the most beautiful canal in southern Britain. Its superb position amidst the verdant pastures and steep wooded hills of the Severn Valley is matched and complemented by a wide range of very attractive attractive structures connected with the canal itself. This publication enables visitors travelling by car, on foot, or by boat, to appreciate the richness and fascination of the structures on and alongside the waterway. This book also forms an introduction to the canal’s heritage for the interested archaeologist or historian and aims to place the remains in the context of other contemporary structures.
The Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales first became involved with the archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal when asked to evaluate the significance of the monuments remaining along its length. This was done, drawing upon the experience of the study of the remains of other canals and contemporary railway systems in Wales. The policy of selected survey and photography has since been pursued using both the commission’s own resources as survey training exercises for both the Ironbridge Institute of Industrial Archaeology and for Powys County Council’s employment scheme on the canal. It has been possible to survey the complexes of buildings and structures at Belan, Garthmyl Canal Port, the Powis Estate timber yard, Welshpool Canal Yard and Maintenance Depot prior to the redevelopment of this attractive canal as a cruise way for modern pleasure boats.
Author: Stephen Hughes
Binding: December 1989
Pages: 168
Size: 245 x 185 mm
ISBN: 1871184029
Publisher’s Price (in 1989): £5.45
