A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead RoadLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - 465 páginas |
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... , and Parliament having continued to grant further sums of money , eighty - two miles of new road have been made by him through North Wales , between Chirk and Holyhead : three miles between Chirk and 30 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
... , and Parliament having continued to grant further sums of money , eighty - two miles of new road have been made by him through North Wales , between Chirk and Holyhead : three miles between Chirk and 30 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
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... Chirk and Holyhead : three miles between Chirk and the village of Gobowen , near Oswestry , and seven miles on the Holyhead and Chester road . Thirty - one miles have also been made by Mr. Telford at various places on the Holyhead road ...
... Chirk and Holyhead : three miles between Chirk and the village of Gobowen , near Oswestry , and seven miles on the Holyhead and Chester road . Thirty - one miles have also been made by Mr. Telford at various places on the Holyhead road ...
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... Chirk Bridge ; the second , of 30 miles , from Chirk Bridge to Cernioge ; and the third , of 32 miles , from Cernioge to Bangor Ferry . " Over each of these districts an assistant surveyor or in- spector was appointed , care being taken ...
... Chirk Bridge ; the second , of 30 miles , from Chirk Bridge to Cernioge ; and the third , of 32 miles , from Cernioge to Bangor Ferry . " Over each of these districts an assistant surveyor or in- spector was appointed , care being taken ...
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... Chirk , in North Wales . In some situations it may be advisable to pass through a hill by means of a tunnel , instead of by deep cutting . There are three works of this kind on the Simplon Road . One of them , " la grande galerie de ...
... Chirk , in North Wales . In some situations it may be advisable to pass through a hill by means of a tunnel , instead of by deep cutting . There are three works of this kind on the Simplon Road . One of them , " la grande galerie de ...
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... Chirk . Between Holyhead Pier and Chirk Bridge is a distance of 83 miles 1,320 yards . The whole may be fairly con- sidered a new road , as the short pieces of the old road were entirely re - made . The whole of the roadway is con ...
... Chirk . Between Holyhead Pier and Chirk Bridge is a distance of 83 miles 1,320 yards . The whole may be fairly con- sidered a new road , as the short pieces of the old road were entirely re - made . The whole of the roadway is con ...
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Allesley arch Archway Road axles bottom breadth brick bridge broken stones built carriage centre coach coating commissioners constructed contract contractor Coventry cross drains DAVIES GILBERT depôts depth draught dynamometer earth eighteen inches elasticity embankments engineer expense experiments feet wide fences foot footpath fore wheels formed foundation four inches friction gravel ground half hard Hartshill height hill hind wheels Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide instrument John Kershaw John Macneill labour laid length line of road manner masonry ment miles mortar mound necessary nine inches paved pavement placed Plate VII proper quicksets rails rates of inclination repair road-making roadway ruts side channels side springs six inches slopes specification spirit level springs square streets surface surveyor Telford theodolite Thomas Baylis three feet three inches trustees turnpike roads turnpike trusts upper velocity waggon whole wing walls
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Página 20 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter?