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Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. improve the existing aqueduct or feeder, from the Supply of Surplus Water to , , said last-mentioned reservoir, in and through the and . several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other places of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Hope, Taxal, OTICE is hereby given, That application is Combs-Edge, Bradshaw-Edge, Fernilee, and Wha- N intended to be made to Parliament, in the ley otherwise Whaley-cum-Yeardsley, or some of , next session, for an Act to enable the Manchester, them, in the counties of and , or Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company to one of them, to the Canal, in the appropriate to the purpose of affording an addi- said township of Whaley otherwise Whaley-cum- tional supply of water, for domestic and other pur- Yeardsley, in the said parish of Taxal; to make poses, to the inhabitants of the boroughs of Man- a reservoir, with proper feeders, aqueducts, and works chester, Salford, and Stockport, or some or one of connected therewith, in the several townships of them, the surplus water which from time to time Lyme-Handley, , and Whaley other- may not be required for the purposes of the navi- wise Whaley-cum-Yeardsley, or some of them, in gations of the and the parishes of Prestbury and Taxal, or one of Canal respectively, which canals, (by virtue of two them, in the said county of Chester, upon or con- several Acts passed in the last session of Parlia- tiguous to certain brooks or streams called Todd's ment, the one of them entitled " An Act for vest- Brook, Holehouse or Spon Brook, and Nether ing in the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Man- Cliffe Brook, or some of them, and to impound the chester Railway Company, the Peak Forest Canal water therefrom, and to convey such water to and the Macclesfield Canal:" and the other of other reservoirs, or to the said Peak Forest Canal; them, intituled " An Act to amalgamate the Shef- to make an aqueduct from the said last mentioned field, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway reservoir to the existing reservoir called Todd's Company, the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, Brook Reservoir, of the said Peak. Forest Canal, the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension, and the and which said last mentioned aqueduct will pass Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway Companies, in, and through, and be situate within the said and the Grimsby Dock Company," under the name townships of Kettleshulme and Whaley, otherwise of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Whaley-cum-Yeardsley, or one of them, in the Railway Company,) will become vested in the said parishes of Prestbury and Taxal, in the said said Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail- county of Chester; to remove certain obstructions way Company on and after the first day of January to the free course of the water in the said Peak next. Forest Canal in the several townships of Whaley, otherwise Whaley-cum-Yeardsley, -Stanley And it is proposed by the said intended Act, to otherwise Disley, and Marple, in the parishes of enable the said Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- Taxal and Stockport respectively, in the county of shire Railway Company to collect and impound a Chester; to make an aqueduct from the said Peak further supply of water, and to execute the follow- Forest Canal at or near a widening or turning ing works, or some of them, that is to say, to place therein, called Johnson's Turning Place, in make a reservoir, with proper feeders, aqueducts, the paid township of Marple, in the said parish of and works connected therewith, in the several Stockport, to the sites of certain proposed filtering townships of Bugsworth, and Brownside, beds and other reservoirs in the township of Marple and Bowden-Edge, or some of them, in the parishes aforesaid, and which said last mentioned aqueduct of and Chapel-en Ic-Frith, or one of them, will pass in, and through, and be situate wholly in the county of Derby, upon or contiguous to cer- within the said township of Marple, in the said tain brooks or streams, called Ford Brook, Roach parish of Stockport, in the said county of Chester; Brook, and Hockham Brook, some or one of them, to make collecting reservoirs, settling reservoirs, and to impound the water therefrom, and to con- filtering-beds, service-reservoirs, and other reser- vey such water to other reservoirs, or to the said voirs, with proper feeders, aqueducts, and works Peak Forest Canal; to make an aqueduct from connected therewith, in the townships of Marple, the said last-mentioned reservoir, in or through Norbury, and Torkingtou, or some or one of them, the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial in the said parish of Stockport, in the county of or other places, of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Glossop, Chester; upon or contiguous to certain brooks, Bowden-Edge, Bradshaw-Edge, and Chinley Bugs- or streams, or drains, called Harper's Brook, Half- worth, and Brownside, or some of them, in the said Green Brook, Windlehurst Brook, Leech's Brook, county of Derby, to join the Bugsworth Branch of Threapus Brook, and Spring Brook, or some or one the said Peak Forest Canal, in the said township of them, and to impound and apply for the pur- of Bradshaw-Edge, at or nearly adjoining the point poses aforesaid the waters of such brooks, streams, where the same branch canal crosses the river Goyt; or drains respectively; to enlarge the existing to enlarge the existing reservoir, called the Combs reservoir, called the Reservoir, belonging to Reservoir, belonging to the said Peak Forest Canal, the Macclesfield Canal, and the feeders, aqueducts, and the feeders, aqueducts, and works connected and works connected therewith, and to make therewith, and to make additional feeders, aque- additional feeders, aqueducts, and works thereto, ducts, and works thereto and connected therewith; connected therewith,—which last-mentioned which last-mentioned enlargement and works will enlargements and works will be situate in the be situate and be in the said townships of Combs- townships of Bosley and , or one Edge and Bradshaw-Edge, or one of them, in the of them, in the parish of Prestbury, in the said parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith; to enlarge and said county of Chester; to make a reservoir,