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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 200 navvies at work on the construction of the adjoining railway. A temporary hospital was built on a site adjoining …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and a new bridge was opened in 1979. 8 The Dorset Central Railway line reached Wincanton in 1861. 9 The station opened … gas. In 1862 the company merged with the Somerset Central Railway to became the Somerset and Dorset Railway, controlling a line from Bath to Bournemouth. Goods …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on the road from Lynn to Norwich, and the Lynn and Dereham railway has a station here. The living is a discharged … and is still used. Mr. Barrett, the antiquary, of Manchester, describing the ruins in 1780, says: "When this … of Bute. Windsor WINDSOR, a suburb of the town of Liverpool, in the extra-parochial district of Toxteth-Park, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Mary Boyd's gift (1905); 1,021 London and North Western Railway 3 per cent. perpetual debentures, Thomas Drake's gift … 4 per cent. stock of the London and South Coast Railway. The school having been closed, the dividends are … of Charitable Fundsnamely, 2,000 Bank stock, 6,000 Liverpool Corporation 3 per cent. stock, 5,000 London and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… when approaching Windsor from Slough by the Great Western railway. The great length of the castle, of nearly 1,600 ft., … noticeable when it is approached from either of the two railway stations, but owing to the many windows that have …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The Grand Junction canal, and the London and Birmingham railway, run along the eastern boundary of the parish, and … Wallsend" coal. The Wingate branch of the Hartlepool railway terminates at the colliery; and the Hartlepool, Clarence, and York and Newcastle Junction railway passes through the southern portion of the district. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Secular Broomhill Bridge, see Moreton, Monument (4). Railway Bridge, see p. 417. c(2) Rectory, of three storeys …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… between the river Derwent and the Cromford and High Peak railway. It is badly supplied with water, which in dry …
A History of the County of Stafford
… established in 1860 and the Wardle lodge of Oddfellows (Manchester Unity) in 1878. In 1990 the latter was amalgamated …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Here is a station of the Nottingham and Lincoln railway. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books … The Cromford canal, and the Cromford and High Peak railway, commence in the parish; the former about a mile and … and the latter about half a mile north. The Midland railway passes a few miles on the southeast of the town. The …