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  • The Lune through Lancaster.

    Skerton Weir. The last weir on the Lune is at Skerton, between John Rennie’s aqueduct (1797) [Lancaster Letter 23], and Thomas Harrison’s Skerton Bridge (1788) [Lancaster Letter 7]. Built to power a corn mill, the weir created a two mile lake between it and the next weir upstream, at Halton. William Bradshaw objected to the…