Stroudwater Navigation John Hore

in similar circumstances becoming employed on avon navigation, hore approached gloucestershire organistation view linking stroud river severn making river frome navigable. hore deemed waterway unsuitable such project, instead designing twelve-lock, 8.5-mile (13.7 km) canal framilode wallbridge. canal, have catered 60-ton boats, cost £20,000 (equivalent £2,592,000 in 2016) construct. bill put before parliament, supplemented evidence presented commons , lords hore in february , march 1730. although act passed in may 1730, met opposition number of millers on river have seen changes in water powering mills. these millers given rights on water usage, allow them shut navigation 2 months per year. this, coupled fact act allowed river made navigable (and not construction of separate canal), meant hore s recommendations never realised.