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A History of the County of Shropshire
… was completed in 1983. 76 A network of canals and railways linked mines and ironworks in the Oakengates area … probably to a wharf on Watling Street. 81 Among many railways of the earlier 19th century was that running eight … on the old L.N.W.R. line also shutting in that year. 86 Railways were vital to the local extractive and manufacturing …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… been made possible through the draining of the area by an underground level at Wrockwardine Wood. 36 Although Richard … their place. 8 From the 1850s, after the arrival of the railways, the town centre market too became a popular social …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… mid 19th century, when a market was established and the railways arrived, did Oakengates begin to assume an urban … status of Oakengates was enhanced by the arrival of the railways between 1849 and 1861. The railways made Oakengates, like Wellington, accessible to the …