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Reprint: local history publishers in Loughborough, Leicestershire and the Midlands

Reprint publish original local history books for Loughborough, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, with a catalogue of over 300 titles. We also reprint out-of-print and hard-to-find volumes of local interest, as well as postcards and calendars. Want to write a book of local interest? We can publish it for you.

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The Navigation Pub and the Canal to Barrow Deep Lock. Barrow upon Soar. A History from 1794

Malcolm Dark

A history of how and why the canal was built to avoid the weir beyond the site of Barrow Mill and make the River Soar navigable from Loughborough to Leicester.

The canal cutting required a deep lock at the northern end to restore the water level near to Barrow Road Bridge.

Deeds of the Navigation Pub refer back to 1803, the exact date of the building is not specified but it may have been established to serve the diggers (navigators) or certainly the early boat crews who stopped there to … [more about this new title]

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