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Title: Plan Shewing the Shropshire Union Canals
Description: Chester, Gresty and Burghall. 1870. Book, Plan shewing the Shropshire Union Canals printed by Gresty and Burghall of Chester circa 1870. On folding linen size 63 by 59 cm. Hand-coloured with a colour-coded key that gives details of the eight canal companies operating in the area. Covers an area south of a line running from Liverpool to Manchester down to another from Newtown in mid-Wales to Birmingham. Folds into original stiff boards which have a label on the front with the title and another indicating that the map was once the property of the Earl of Powis. Map Good to Vg condition. Images available.

Keywords: Canals