An Act to enable the Justices of the County of Lancaster to erect a new Bridge over the River Irwell in the Townships of Kearsley and Pilkington in the Hundred of Salford, in lieu of an old Bridge there called Ringley Bridge; and for other Purposes.
WHEREAS the existing Bridge over the River Irwell in the Townships of Kearsley and Pilkington in the Hundred of Salford in the County Palatine of Lancaster, called Ringley Bridge, is very narrow, and the Approaches thereto are very precipitous and circuitous, so as to be inconvenient and dangerous, and insufficient for the greatly increased Traffic passing over the same: And whereas the said Bridge and its Approaches are by ancient Custom repairable by the Inhabitants of the said Hundred of S...