Catalogue description Weaver Navigation

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of LNW
Reference: LNW
Title: Weaver Navigation
Description:

River Weaver Series

 

Minute books and Indexes

 

Finance and Works Committee Minute Books and Indexes

 

General Annual Account Books

 

Ganeral ledgers and Indexes

 

Works Ledgers and Indexes

 

Debtors' Ledgers and Indexes

 

Tonnage Journals

 

Tonnage Account books

 

'Amount of the River Weaver Tonnage Bills

 

Northwich Tonnage Books of Goods and Coals

 

Draft Northwich Tonnage Books of Goods and Coals

 

Northwich Tonnage Books of Rock and White Salt

 

Draft Northwich Tonnage Books of Rock and White Salt

 

Northwich Excise Cheque Books

 

Northwich Casual Tonnage Books

 

Winsford Early Tonnage Books

 

Winsford Tonnage books of Goods and Coals

 

Draft Winsford Tonnage Books of Goods and Coals

 

Winsford Tonnage Books of White Salt

 

Draft Winsford Tonnage Books of White Salt

 

Anderton Lift and Transhipping Journals

 

Weston Journal and Index

 

Storekeeper's Book Outward

 

Main Wage Accounts

 

General Repairs, Wages Books

 

Wage Accounts for Particular Works

 

Wages of Extra Labourers

 

Accounts, Estimates and specific Tradesmens' accounts

 

Foremens' Weekly Reports

 

Weekly Dredging Returns

 

Accounts and Correspondence with Anderton Lift Office

 

Miscellaneous records

 

Mortgages

 

Stock and share certificates

 

Canal boat registration certificates

 

Insurance policies

 

Papers re Trustees appointments

 

Miscellaneous papers

 

Registers of weighed flats

 

Counsel's Opinions

Date: 1721 - 1943
Related material:

Further material relating to the Navigation will be found amongst the Quarter Sessions records, County Council records and the papers of Messrs Chambers & Co of Northwich, (ref DCN) who were solicitors to the Trustees for many years.

 

A full account of the origin and development of the Navigation is given in T S Willan The Navigation of the River Weaver in the Eighteenth Century (Chetham Society, Third Series, vol III, 1951).

Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Weaver River Navigation Commissioners

Weaver Navigation Trustees

Physical description: 457 vols, 29 gatherings, 50 bdls, 58 items
Access conditions:

All records are open for research, but may be subject to several days' notice to retrieve from offsite storage; please contact the Record Office

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were deposited by the Trustees of the Weaver Navigation in January 1948 after previous inspection at the Navigation Offices, Northwich, on behalf of the county Council and the National Register of Archives (ACC 45).

 

An additional collection of records relating chiefly to the Engineer's and Works departments of the Navigation was discovered at the old Navigation Trustees' Offices, Navigation Road, Northwich in 1980 and deposited by British Waterways Board (Acc 2767).

Subjects:
  • Northwich, Cheshire
  • Winsford, Cheshire
  • Anderton, Cheshire
  • Weston, Runcorn, Cheshire
  • River Weaver, Cheshire
  • Weaver Navigation, Cheshire
  • Canal companies
  • Canal construction
  • Navigation
  • Transport infrastructure
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