Vol 3 - Lackham Countryside Centre
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The Manor of <strong>Lackham</strong> <strong>Vol</strong> 3 : The Montagu family<br />
building of the Chippenham Tunnel 376 . It may be worth noting that<br />
Chippenham had good reason to want the Wharf closer to the Town,<br />
they owned the land and the Wharf and were able to charge 2s for every<br />
boat which used it, a “princely sum 377 ” indeed in 1803!<br />
James V was Treasurer to the Wilts & Berks between 1795 and 1797,<br />
when he took over he transferred the balance of £354 3s from the<br />
previous treasurer’s Abingdon Bank account to his own bank 378 . During<br />
his time as Treasurer there was a call for funds which raised £9,233,<br />
and with a payment of payment, of nearly £275, from the Committee of<br />
the Kennet and Avon Canal 379 the total income over the two years was in<br />
excess of £24,500 pounds, an enormous amount of money. Canals,<br />
however, are expensive things to build, and he handed on to the next<br />
Treasurer only £86 14s 9¼d 380 .<br />
James V’s association with the Wilts & Berks Canal has proved very<br />
helpful in dating another of his projects; sometime after his father’s<br />
death he demolished the old manor house and built the Georgian house<br />
which is much of the building seen today 381 .<br />
376 Alder, R (2010) “The Wilts and Berks Canal” paper presented at Chippenham<br />
Museum 10 th Anniversary Archaeology and History Dayschool, Chippenham, March<br />
2010<br />
377 Nuttall, S (1997) The Chippenham Tunnel” Dragonfly 67 (the journal of the Wilts<br />
& Berks Canal Trust) Winter 1997/98<br />
378 W&SHC 2424/7 Wilts and Berks Canal Company Accounts Ledger p3 dated<br />
October 14 th 1795<br />
379 It is possible that this was connected with the three subscriptions to the K&A<br />
mentioned in the analysis of the income from the 1794 subscription call. This remains<br />
speculative.<br />
380 W&SHC 2424/7 Wilts and Berks Canal Company Accounts Ledger p3 dated<br />
October 14 th 1795<br />
381 The following section is based on the more extensive history in Pratt, T (2009)<br />
The Manor Houses of <strong>Lackham</strong> 1050-1949 Wiltshire College <strong>Lackham</strong> p15<br />
(Available online at<br />
http://www.lackham.co.uk/history/manor_houses_1050_1949_ed2.pdf )<br />
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