Unfortunately for the Navigation, its opponents had not given up.
In 1775 they went to court, successfully arguing that the Act of Parliament passed in 1730, only permitted improving the river and not building a canal. A new Act of Parliament was needed and all the old arguments were once again produced.
The proposers said the price of coal would fall substantially. The opponents claimed that the mills on the river below Stroud would be ruined.
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