Tag: Salter & Co’s Brewery
The Salters Cut (Sabey's Canal and Rickmansworth Wharf)
March 5, 2010
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Salter’s Cut was a 500yd cut opened in 1804 (or 1805 as some sources claim) and served Salter & Co’s Brewery, but later also extended to serve a gravel pit (now Sabey’s Pool) and Rickmansworth Gasworks. Here we look at the lock on the branch to Sabey’s Pool and the […]
Read More The Salters Cut (Gasworks Arm/River Chess) Rickmansworth
March 5, 2010
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canal , Grand Union Canal , Historical , River , Uncategorized -
by Rat's Islander
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This was a 500yd cut opened in 1804 (or 1805 as some sources claim) and served Salter & Co’s Brewery. The firm’s director, Stephen Salter, paid for the river to be canalised. This was the course of the River Chess, deepened and widened, to permit boats to reach the brewery. […]
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