Mon 13 May 1839
Special Meeting. Mr Hawker produced receipt for 10s 6d paid to James Withey, owner of Gannicox House and Garden, for use for 7 years of land at bottom of Gannicox Garden, for road between garden and canal to feed at Lodgemore and place where boathouse was.
Map showing layout of road and culvert at Lodgemore.
Mr John Biddle, owner of Stratford’s Mill, allowed to make excavation in bank of canal at eastward end of wing wall of feeder or works at Lodgemore, for mooring barges there for loading and unloading of corn for mill, 7 feet wide. Our works to be protected by his continuing wing wall as far as excavation extends inward to north east. Bank to be well piled. Width of cutting not to exceed 7 feet. Wall to be substantially built under superintendance of surveyor.
At a Special Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Walbridge on Monday the 13^th day of May 1839
Present: M^r Wyatt, M^r Jos Fisher, M^r P H Fisher, M^r Hughes, M^r Sam^l Fisher.
M^r Hawker produced a Receipt for 10^s/6 paid by him to M^r James Withey (ownere of Gunnicox House & Garden) for the use for 7 years of the land at the bottom of Gannicox Yard in being a road between the Garden & the Canal to the Feeder at Lodgemore & the place wither boathouse was.
Ordered that the payment be cofirmed.
But of what is our right to the use of this (?) Road?
[Diagram included in minute book.]
M^r Biddle (the owner of Stratford's Mill) having applied to this Company to leave to make an excavation in the banks of our Canal at the Eastward end of the wing wall of the feeded or Works there, at Lodgemore, for the more conveniently mooring barges there for the purpose of loading and unloading Corn for his Mill - (the said excavation to be seven feet wide next the wing wall, & going to a point at the Eastward end thereof-) : -
Ordered that he be allowed to make the same excavation; provided our Works be protected by his continuing the wing wall (_in the present general direction of its sweep_) as far as the excavation shall extend inwards towards the north East;- and provided the bank extending therefrom along the _length_ thereof be well piled; - And provided the width of the cutting near the wing wall doth not exceed Seven feet from the square of the bank of the Canal;- And provided the Wall & other works be substantially built under the superintendence and direction of the Company's Surveyor, directed by M^r Cosham, and that the same be done during the stoppage of the Canal on the ensuing Whitsuntide.
Ordered that the following Bills be paid, viz:
Mess^rs Price & Washbourne: 35^£:0:2^d
_ R^D Bushell's Bill: 5:14:4
