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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… enhanced by its proximity to the Chester and Holyhead railway, to which there is a constant communication, and from … enhanced by the Tenby, Saundersfoot, and South Wales railway company, formed under act of parliament in 1846. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Preston; containing 413 inhabitants. It lies on the road, railway, and canal from Preston to Lancaster, and comprises … the same distance from the Northampton and Peterborough railway, which has a station here; it comprises 2330 acres of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and there is a station on the Birmingham and Derby railway. Courts leet and baron are held annually in October; … a steam-packet. There is a station on the Hull and Selby railway at Hessle, just mentioned; and an act was passed in … the New Holland branch of the Gainsborough and Grimsby railway, to Barton: the extension is four miles long. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… its confluence with the Thames. The London and Southampton railway, also, has a station here. The Great Western railway company have a line to Reading, 15 miles long, under … an act passed in 1845; and an act was passed in 1846 for a railway from near Basingstoke to Andover and Salisbury, 32 …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… ditch is corrugated by ridge-and-furrow. To the N. of the railway cutting, at the foot of the natural slope, feeble or … also fragments of glass and of pewter. Construction of the railway exposed a score of pits and two stone blocks with … quern. Pottery has been noted in the field W. of the railway cutting and can be found outside the enclosure on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… carried on very extensively. The London and Southampton railway, for the present, has its commencement at Nine-Elms, … Calder and Hebble navigation, and the Manchester and Leeds railway, pass in the vicinity. A district church was erected … of from twelve to twenty-four tons' burthen. The great railway from London to York will pass by the town. The market …
Survey of London
… BRIDGE ESTATE King's Cross Station on the Metropolitan Railway, now closed, was situated in the middle of an area … of the grounds which were furnished with an overhead railway from which cars were suspended 101 ( see illustration … has been entirely demolished and rebuilt. SUSPENSION RAILWAY, ROYAL PANARMONION GARDENS, LIVERPOOL STREET, KINGS …
A History of the County of Somerset
… In the 20th century houses were built along the abandoned railway track and within Bawdrip village. Arable fields … to the west in Bridgwater parish. In 1890 the Bridgwater Railway Co. opened a line between Bridgwater and Edington …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… intersected by the road from Neston to Birkenhead, and the railway from Chester to Birkenhead; it comprises about 4700 … in the neighbourhood are many handsome villas. The Croydon railway passes along the north-western angle of the parish. A …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… An act was passed in 1846, enabling the York and Newcastle Railway Company to make a branch line to Bedale, 7 miles in … is carried on with Lynn and the intermediate places. A railway from Bedford to the Bletchley station of the London … of nearly eight miles from the great London and York railway, to Bedford. The market-days are Monday, for pigs …