Download or read book The Thames and Severn Canal written by Humphrey Household and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Thames & Severn Canal is one of exceptional interest. Talked of as early as the first decade of the seventeenth century, it was the first trunk waterway ever to be proposed in this country.