flourishing port, shipping
goods to London, and it
continued as an important
inland trade route with the
introduction of the Thames
and Severn Canal in 1789.
Docks were built and
Lechlade became a loading
place for cargo. But by the
mid-1860s barges were now
‘almost unknown’ noted the
press, part of a general ‘decay
and desuetude of the river’. In
London the Thames was
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