Welsh Journals

point, however, it is impossible to say which way it went, due to mining disturbance and, later, rehabilitation. In all, the railroad was 21 miles long, to reach a point 67 chains from that at which it commenced. REFERENCES PRO. BTHR.-Public Record Office, British Transport Historical Records Office. 1 Gwent Record Office. D.751/328. 2 PRO. BTHR. Monmouthshire Canal, proprietors minutes, 28 April 1794. 3 Hadfield, Charles. "Canals of South Wales & the Border". David & Charles, 1960. 4 PRO. BTHR. Monmouthshire Canal, Committee minutes, 7 Nov. 1804. do. do. do. do. do. 4 Nov. 1806. 8 do. do. do. do. do. 21 July 1817. T do. do. do. do. do. 10 Jan. 1828. 8 Hereford Journal, 30 December 1829. 9 Gwent Record Office. D454/1208. 10 Phillips, Elizabeth. "Pioneers of the Welsh Coalfield". Western Mail, 1925. 11 PRO. BTHR. Monmouthshire Canal, Proprietors minutes, 4 May 1828. 12 do. do. do. Committee minutes, 13 May 1835 and 30 May 1835. 13 Rising Sun is at SO.270 043. The site of the Balance Pit may have been near Balance Houses (SO.255 053), but due to later working in the area and the consequent alteration of the contours, this cannot be proven. 14 PRO. BTHR. Monmouthshire Canal, Committee minutes, 3 Nov. 1835. 15 Newport Public Library. Ref.M.000/625 CWM. 16 PRO. BTHR. Monmouthshire Canal, Committee minutes, 5 August 1836. do. do. do. do. do. 7 July 1837. 18 do. do. do. do. do. 20 June 1838. 19 Gwent Record Office, D.454/1251. p. 71. 20 PRO. BTHR. Monmouthshire Canal, Committee minutes, 2 Nov. 1841. 21 do. do. do. do. do. 7 Dec. 1838. 22 do. do. do. do. do. 1 August 1849. 23 do. do. do. do. do. 21 Oct. 1852. 24 In Gwent Record Office. 2b PRO. BTHR. Monmouthshire Canal, Committee minutes, 10 Dec. 1852. 29 The sub-lease by the Blaenavon Co. expired in 1842. John Vipond acquired many coal bearing sites in the district and finally in 1862, leased the old Varteg Furnace site. Gwent Record Office, D.751/70. THE SALMON FISHERIES AT CHEPSTOW IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by IVOR WATERS SALMON are caught commercially at Chepstow with stop-nets and at Beachley in putchers. In a Saxon charter of A.D. 956 King Edwy granted the manor of Tidenham (of which Beachley was part) to the Abbot of Bath, and listed the fisheries from Stroat down Severn and up the Wye to Lancaut. The salmon were caught in cytweras (ranks of putchers or conical shaped baskets) or in haecweras (hackle weirs or wattle barriers to make an eddy in which the fish could be