River Trent

Nottingham seems to have been the ancient head of navigation until the Restoration, due partly to the difficult navigation of the Trent Bridge. Navigation was then extended to Wilden Ferry, near to the more recent Cavendish Bridge, as a result of the efforts of the Fosbrooke family of Shardlow. |}} | territorial_extent = England and Wales | royal_assent = 4 May 1699 | commencement = 6 December 1698 | repeal_date = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = Current | original_text = https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol7/pp538-543 | collapsed = yes }} Later, in 1699, the baron William Paget (Lord Paget), who owned coal mines and land in the area, obtained an…

| repeal_date = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = Current | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WrmXQpgmfMAC&pg=PA318 | collapsed = yes }} The first improvement of the lower river was at Newark, where the channel splits into two. The residents of the town wanted to increase the use of the branch nearest to them, and so the (13 Geo. 3. c. 86) was obtained in December 1772 to authorise the work. Newark Navigation Commissioners were created, with powers to borrow money to fund the construction of two locks, and to charge tolls for boats using them. The work was completed by October 1773, and the separate tolls remained in force until 1783, when they…