An act to enable the Most Noble Francis Duke of Bridgewater to make a navigable cut or canal from Longford Bridge in the township of Stretford in the county palatine of Lancaster, to the river Mersey, at a place called the Hempstones, in the township of Halton in the county of Chester

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An act to enable the Most Noble Francis Duke of Bridgewater to make a navigable cut or canal from Longford Bridge in the township of Stretford in the county palatine of Lancaster, to the river Mersey, at a place called the Hempstones, in the township of Halton in the county of Chester