Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal

| repeal_date = | amendments = Newcastle-under-Lyme Coal Supply Act 1812 | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = | status = Amended | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B09RAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA32 | collapsed = yes }} Sir Nigel Gresley inherited his baronetcy when his older brother Sir Thomas Gresley, the fifth baronet, died unexpectedly of smallpox on 23 December 1753. As Thomas had no children, the title passed to Sir Nigel, who became the sixth baronet. He thus inherited land near Apedale and Chesterton, where there were coal mines and ironstone mines. In 1752, he had employed the canal engineer James Brindley to build a water engine to drain some coal mines that he…