Waterways Engineers and Surveyors from Coad, Robert

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Robert Coad

Richard Coates -

1793

Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation

Controlled the construction of the navigation, a task that he carried out on behalf of John Rennie to whom he was an assistant.

James Cockshutt

Sir William Congreve

April 1814	Grand Union Regents Canal	A report on his "invention for saving lockage water" which he had patented the previous year. This he described as "the hydro-pneumatic lock".
7 June 1815	Grand Union Regents Canal	He reported that there were some leaks in his hydro-pneumatic locks but every other part had been proved. This did not convince everyone and his locks were replaced by single conventional locks the next year.

Sir John Coode

1876

River Ouse (Yorkshire)

Wrote a report proposing a new lock at Naburn to be 140 foot by 32 foot and the purchase of a dredger at a cost of £40,000.

John Copeland

1795	River Don	Became the navigation's engineer following the death of John Thompson.
1801	River Don	He made detailed surveys to support Jessop's proposals for improving the river.
April 1840	River Don	Resigned as engineer after 68 years service with the company, 45 of them as engineer.

James Cranston

January 1811

River Wye

The new towpath, probably constucted under his supervision, was completed.

William Crawley

Mid 1792	Horncastle Canal	Was appointed engineer jointly for the navigation and for the Sleaford Navigation.
Mid 1792	Sleaford Navigation	Was appointed engineer jointly for the navigation and for the Horncastle Canal.
October 1792	Horncastle Canal	Resigned as engineer.

James Creassy

1801

Leven Canal

The authorising Act required him to agree with William Jessop the width, depth and size of lock before work began.

A Creer

William, Junior Crosley

Late 1802	Rochdale Canal	Appointed engineer under William Jessop's supervision.
1809	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	Engaged as engineer for £500 a year.
August 1810	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	Did a survey for a group of promoters for the route of a tramroad from Brecon to Eardisley beyond Hay.
1811	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	Surveyed the line for a 7.75 mile tramroad from Govilon through Llanfoist and Abergavenny to Llanvihangel.
Mid 1811	Worcester and Birmingham Canal	Appointed engineer.
Late 1813	Worcester and Birmingham Canal	He completed the main work on the two reserviors at Cofton and King's Norton.
May 1817	Lancaster Canal	Appointed as engineer responsible for for completing works north of Tewitfield Locks.
1820	Lancaster Canal	He is appointed superintendent for the whole canal.
June 1826	Lancaster Canal	After completing the Glasson Dock branch he resigns to become engineer to the Macclesfield Canal.
Summer 1826	Macclesfield Canal	Appointed resident engineer.
Late 1830	Rochdale Canal	Checked the actual traffic level on the Manchester to Sowerby Bridge turnpike road as part of the canal company's opposition to a proposed railway between these points.

William, Senior Crosley died 1796

Surveyor and engineer from Brighouse. Father of William, Junior Crosley, assistant to John Rennie and assistant to William Jessop.

June 1791	Rochdale Canal	Appointed to assist John Rennie in the survey of the route.
July 1792	Lancaster Canal	Appointed assistant surveyor.
September 1792	Rochdale Canal	Surveyed for reseviors, assisted by John Longbotham.
1793	Rochdale Canal	Produce the survey plan for the third Bill under John Rennie's direction.
1793	Scarborough and Whitby Canal schemes	Did a survey for a 25 mile narrow canal from Whitby to Pickering, estimated to cost £66,447. He also looked at the possibility of a branch to Danby.
Early 1794	Rochdale Canal	Was appointed resident engineer, at first jointly with Henry Taylor but he soon resigned.

William Crossley

1822

Ashby de la Zouch Canal

He was sent by the canal committee to survey the coal tolls and drawbacks on eight neighbouring canals.

Joseph Crow

1807

Alford Canal project

Made a survey and estimated the construction costs at £33,308.

William Cubitt 1785 - 1861

Canal engineer of the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal. Woked with James Elliott.

1814	River Yare	He was asked to advise on improving the river at Yarmouth and recommended dredging on the south side of Breydon Water and general improvements at the cost of £35,000. He later carried out another survey at Lowestoft.
January 1819	Ipswich & Stowmarket Navigation	At a meeting in Eye his report on a canal from Ipswich to Eye was presented. It included a tunnel through the hills at Mendlesham and was estimated at over £100,000.
Spring 1826	Haddiscoe (or New) Cut - Norfolk & Suffolk Broads	Between 10th April and 1st May he gave evidence to a formal enquiry into the Bill to authorise the cut. He proposed a doudle lock at Munford bridge with gates pointing both ways and the further use of steam tugs.
1829	Oxford Canal (Northern Section)	Was appointed consult engineer to direct the straightening of the canal between Braunston and Hawksbury. These were completed in 1834.
1832	Central Union Canal project	He produced a survey for this proposed canal.
1832	Haddiscoe (or New) Cut - Norfolk & Suffolk Broads	He completed his work directing the building of the cut.
1834	Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal	Was called in to help Telford with the Shelmore Embankment which was causing problems and delaying the completion of the canal. It was not completed until March 1835.
1834	Chard Canal	He recommended Sydney Hall as engineer for the canal.
1834	Glamorganshire Canal	Drew up plans for the Bute Docks in Cardiff on behalf of Lord Bute.
1836	Monmouthshire Canal	He was asked by the company to report on the canal and the tramroad from Pontymoile to Pontnewyndd and recommended improved water supplies for the canal.
1836	River Stour (Suffolk)	The river proprietors sought his advice on competition from the railways.
March 1838	London & Birmingham Junction Canal project	A meeting was held in his office to discuss the project. No later discussions of this canal are known.
1840	River Severn	Appointed engineer to the Severn Improvement Association with E Leader Williams as sub-engineer.
December 1840	River Severn	Reported the the actual river traffic as 380,000 tons.
1842	River Weaver	Was consulted about making the river navigable for sea-going vessels. He told the trustees that it was possible but it would be better to use Weston Point as a transhipment harbour and for smaller vessels to take the cargoes up the river.
1843	River Severn	Appointed chief engineer and carried out £139,850 of improvements under the direction of Grissell & Peto contractors of Lambeth.
September 1843	Ellesmere & Chester Canal	The completion of improvements to the locks and docks at Ellesmere Port for which he was engineer. These included a sea-lock leading out of the tidal basin into a separate still-water dock, 435 feet by 139 feet behind the warehouses, a second flight of canal locks and other improvements.
1844	River Rother (Eastern)	Together with James Elliot he rebuilt Scots Float Sluice.
1845	Montgomeryshire Canal	Was asked by the company to consider if their canal could be turned into a railway. The survey was never completed as the canal company accepted an offer of £110 per share from the Ellesmere & Chester Canal and had agreed to become part of the Shropshire Union Canal.
1846	Shropshire Union Canal	Appointed as one of three engineers of the newly amalgumated canals.
17 December 1846	River Severn	He certified that the river had a minimun depth of 6 foot at all seasons. This allowed tolls to be charged from the start of 1847.
August 1847	River Severn	He recommends a new lock at Tewkesbury to improve the depths on the river.
July 1857	River Weaver	He wrote of "the extensive and remarkable subsidences which are occuring" on the river due to rock salt mining and brine pumping.

N W Cundy

Late 1824	London to Portsmouth Ship Canal schemes	Published a preliminary report proposing a canal 28 feet deep and around 150 foot wide with about four locks 300 feet long by 64 feet wide.
Autumn 1824	London to Portsmouth Ship Canal schemes	He criticised James Elme's plan for a tida ship canal and soon afterwards announced his own Grand Ship Canal from London to Arundel Bay.
March 1825	London to Portsmouth Ship Canal schemes	A joint meeting is held to consider his and the other two schemes proposed. The meeting agrees that such a scheme could be achieved for less than £5 million and that it would be of great advantage.
September 1825	London to Portsmouth Ship Canal schemes	He issues a report attacking the line and surveying methods of George and John (the younger) Rennie.
1827	London to Portsmouth Ship Canal schemes	He issues a third report on the canal - now called the Grand Imperial Ship Canal on the orders of the Duke of Clarence.

John Curr

25 May 1793

Shropshire Canal

He writes a letter suggesting new methods of getting crates in and out of boats.

James Dadford born 1769

1793	Aberdare Canal	He subscribed to £2,000 of shares jointly with the other three Dadfords, all working on Welsh canals.
September 1794	Aberdare Canal	By this time he had completed a 3 feet 2 inche gauge edge railway from Bryngwyn collieries (south-east of Hirwaun) to Pendeyrn and possibly some way further towards Aberdare.
1795	Gloucester & Sharpness Ship Canal	Appointed resident engineer on Robert Mylne's recommendation.
October 1797	Gloucester & Sharpness Ship Canal	Took over the role of engineer about this time following Robert Mylne's departure. He was ordered to consider the shortening of the canal by bringing it out into the Severn at Hock Crib near Frampton.
1800	Gloucester & Sharpness Ship Canal	Was dismissed as engineer.

John Dadford

Engineer. Son of Thomas Dadford senior. Brother of Thomas Dadford junior, son of Thomas Dadford senior and worked with Thomas Dadford junior.

Summer 1790	Neath Canal	Assisted his father and brother (both called Thomas) in making a survey of the line of the proposed canal.
1792	Glamorganshire Canal	As ther was no carriage road up the Aberdare Valley he surveyed a route for one at the same time as he surveyed the canal and tramroad link to the Neath Canal.
1792	Neath Canal	Did a survey for a proposed canal and tramroad link to the Glamorganshire Canal.
1793	Aberdare Canal	He subscribed to £2,000 of shares jointly with the other three Dadfords, all working on Welsh canals.
1794	Montgomeryshire Canal	Was appointed engineer, with his brother Thomas to assist hin, for which they were jointly paid.
August 1794	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	He completed the tramroad from Gelli-felen collieries to Gilwern and Glanggrwyney for which he was engineer and which was the first work to be started under the canal Act.
1797	Montgomeryshire Canal	He resigned as engineer and went to America.

Thomas Dadford junior died 1806

Canal Engineer and surveyor. Son of Thomas Dadford senior. Son of Thomas Dadford senior, brother of John Dadford, surveyed a tramroad with Hugh Henshall, assisted by William Jessop and worked with John Dadford.

June 1774	Stroudwater Canal	Produced an estimate based on his survey of the line of the canal with John Priddey. They estimated a cost of £16,451.
1776	Stourbridge Canal	Appointed engineer at £120 a yeas and a house.
25 March 1781	Stourbridge Canal	He resigned as engineer.
July 1782	River Trent	He and his father suryey the river down to Gainsborough and recommend locks, side cuts, dredging and a horse towing path.
Autumn 1789	Leominster Canal	Made a survet and an estimate for a 31 mile canal with three tunnels the whole costing £83,000.
1790	Leominster Canal	Following proposals for a canal from Kington to Leominster the two schemes were amalgumated and he produced plans and estimates for a 46 mile canal rising 46 feet from Kington then falling 496 feet to the Severn.
30 June 1790	Glamorganshire Canal	Was engaged as joint contrator with his father and Thomas Sheasby to make the canal for £48,288 exclusive of land. The company did not appoint an engineer so the contractors were controlled by committee members.
July 1790	Neath Canal	He was asked to make a survey of the proposed route of the canal, which he did with his father and brother John.
September 1790	Neath Canal	His estimate of £25,716 for the canal was approved.
July 1791	Leominster Canal	He started construction of the canal as its engineer.
Autumn 1791	Neath Canal	Appointed General Surveyor to superintend occasionally the Works' at a daily salary.
July 1792	Monmouthshire Canal	Was appointed engineer and was to give three-quarters of his time to the work and not to work elsewhere except on the Leominster Canal (where he was already engineer) and was not to have any concern in the contract for cutting.
16 October 1792	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	Was ordered by the company to make a plan and estimate for the canal with the assistance of Mr Cockshutt, a shareholder and solicitor of the Monmouthshire Canal Company.
1793	Aberdare Canal	He subscribed to £2,000 of shares jointly with the other three Dadfords, all working on Welsh canals.
Early 1793	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	He attended hearings of the Bill for the canal, his expenses being paid by the Monmouthshire Canal Company.
12 March 1793	Monmouthshire Canal	He was ordered to survey the route of a tramroad from Beaufort and Ebbw Vale furnaces and Sirhowy to a place called Trevill.
1794	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	He and Hugh Henshall surveyed the line for a tramroad from Llan-march Coal and Mine Works to the Clydach ironworks.
1794	Montgomeryshire Canal	Was appointed to assist his brother John as engineer, for which they were jointly paid.
Late 1795	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	He was appointed engineer on a part-time basis.
December 1795	Leominster Canal	John Rennie criticised his work on the canal.
1796	Monmouthshire Canal	He produced a plan for the extension of the canal one and a half miles from the Newport Town Pill.
1797	Montgomeryshire Canal	Following the resignation of his brother, John, he suggests his father as a replacement.
September 1797	Neath Canal	Surveyed the line for an extension of the canal to Giant's Grave near Briton Ferry.
December 1798	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	His role as engineer changed from part-time to full-time.
1799	Salisbury & Southampton Canal	Took part in arbitration on behalf of the contractors in a dispute with the canal company.
July 1800	Aberdare Canal	He is asked to re-survey the canal and to recommend improvements to the existing tramroad.
1 August 1800	Aberdare Canal	He reported that the canal could be built for £10,500 and that a tramroad 1.5 miles long to the Aberdare Iron Company's works at Llwydcoed would cost £1,500.
24 December 1800	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	The final section of the canal he built, from Gilwern to Brecon, was opened.
Autumn 1810	Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal	Surveyed the line of a tramroad from the canal near Abergavenny to Hereford.

Thomas Dadford senior died 1809

Canal engineer and surveyor. Father of John and Thomas junior. Father of Thomas Dadford junior, father of John Dadford, assistant of James Brindley and worked with Thomas, senior Sheasby.

1766	Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal	He and Samuel Simcock were the engineers bulding the canal under James Brindley's direction.
June 1776	Dudley Canal Line No 1	Was appointed engineer and surveyor.
July 1782	River Trent	He and his son, Thomas, suryey the river down to Gainsborough and recommend locks, side cuts, dredging and a horse towing path.
1783	Dudley Canal Line No 1	He left his post as engineer and surveyor and was afterwards employed on an ad hoc basis.
1784	Coventry Canal	He and Robert Whitworth advised on the proposed Tame Aqueduct.
1785	Dudley Canal Line No 1	He checked the original survey and was made consulting engineer for the Dudley Tunnel extension. He was told to plan for a commodious basin at Castle Mill were the tunnel was to join Lord Dudley's tunnel.
Late 1787	Coventry Canal (Detached Portion)	He completed the building of this section for the Trent & Mersey Canal Company. Soon afterwards the Coventry Canal exercised its right to buy this section for £10,541.
July 1787	Dudley Canal Line No 1	Following some of the contractors work being found unsatisfactory he was paid off as consulting engineer.
1790	Cromford Canal	Around this date he was probably appointed as one of the two contractors building the canal.
30 June 1790	Glamorganshire Canal	Was engaged as joint contrator with his son Thomas and Thomas Sheasby to make the canal for £48,288 exclusive of land. The company did not appoint an engineer so the contractors were controlled by committee members.
1791	Neath Canal	He became a shareholder in the new company.
Spring 1792	Glamorganshire Canal	By this time the canal was navigable but many works still needed to be completed and he had exceeded his contract. He produced a bill for £17,221 of extra work carried out and said that £5,000 still needed to be spent.
1793	Aberdare Canal	He subscribed to £2,000 of shares jointly with the other three Dadfords, all working on Welsh canals.
After 1794	Glamorganshire Canal	In a dispute over payments between the company and the contractors (him and Thomas Sheasby) they were both arrested on the grounds of an alleged overpayment made to them.
1797	Montgomeryshire Canal	He became engineer following the resignation of his son John.
July 1797	Montgomeryshire Canal	Appionted engineer, following his son John in the post.

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1823	Liskeard & Looe Union Canal	He re-surveyed the proposed route with John Edgcumbe and Thomas Esterbrooke.
1825	Liskeard & Looe Union Canal	Was engineer for the canal.

Late 1793	Scarborough and Whitby Canal schemes	He proposed a 25 mile narrow canal from Whitby to Pickering at an estimated cost of £66,447.
25 November 1793	Scarborough and Whitby Canal schemes	A group of promoters met to hear his first survey report for a canal from Scarborough to Malton.
22 May 1794	Scarborough and Whitby Canal schemes	A meeting was held to consider his report on a revised line from Scarborough to Malton.