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| | River Ouse Navigation, Sussex |
 | | The river Ouse had been navigable for small craft for some years, in 1724 records show that small boats used a tributary stream to the powder mills and forge at Marsfield, just above Shortbridge, and there seems to have been a flash lock where the stream joined the Ouse. |
 | | Also a Branch of the river, to Shortbridge, in the parish of Fletching The contract for the work was let to the Pinkertons, who were at that time also working with Jessop on the Basingstoke Canal. |
 | | Like most of the Sussex rivers, the Ouse was an agricultural waterway, with an upstream traffic of bulk goods such as chalk, coal and stone, and a return traffic of agricultural produce. |
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