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A General History of the County of Norfolk
A General History of the County of Norfolk Author:John Chambers Subtitle: Intended to Convey All the Information of a Norfolk Tour, With the More Extended Details of Antiquarian, Statistical, Pictorial, Architectural, and Miscellaneous Information; Including Biographical Notices, Original and Selected General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: Printed by and f... more »or J. Stacy Subjects: Norfolk (England) Norwich (England) History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The corporation havejurisdiction on the river from Helles- don bridge to Hardley Cross, a distance of at least twenty- four miles ; this, however, does not supersede the rights of the proprietors of manors on the banks, all of whom have their several free fisheries, and to some swan marks are appendant; but the city has, in all cases, a joint right. New Port. The project of opening a direct communication between this city and the sea, for sea-borne vessels not exceeding eight feet draught of water, originated with Crisp Brown, esq., one of the aldermen of the corporation, who first submitted the plan of making Norwich a port, by way of Yarmouth, to an assembly of the corporation, on the 3rd of May, 1814, and Mr. Cubitt, a civil engineer, at that time residing at Ipswich, was first appointed by the corporation to make a survey of the river Yare, and estimate the expense of bringing sea-borne vessels direct to the city. Mr. Cubitt having surveyed the rivers in the year 1818, published a report, in which he recommended the avoidance of the Breydon waters by a cut on the south side of them, and by that means to have preserved the old and accustomed line of navigation; the estimate for this plan was £35,026. 18s...« less