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A History of the County of Oxford
… ff. 179-80; D. Green, Blenheim Palace, 135. Birmingham and Midland Inst. Trans. xii. 6. B.L. Add. MS. 61353, f. 5. Ibid. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… been rebuilt. Broomhill Bridge, see Moreton, Monument (4). Railway Station, and Gatekeepers' Cottages at Bailey's Drove …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Laurence was a contractor for the Avonmouth docks and railway. The lease expired in 1876 and the quarry went out of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of 1,110 in 1851, perhaps partly due to the presence of railway navvies in the district that year. The population … after the building of a bridge c. 1876 for the mineral railway from the Tintern wire-works to the Wye Valley line. … shaft of earlier date has survived at the south end. The railway from Gloucester to South Wales, which passes through …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the distance is traversed in about ten minutes by the railway. Hulks are moored off Woolwich, for convicts whose …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It is intersected by the London and South-Western railway, and comprises 1133 a. l r. 13 p., of which 20 acres … a mile to the south of the town, and the Great Western railway has a station here. The market is on Tuesday; and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were reopened in 1973. 7 The Berks. & Hants Extension Railway, built parallel to and immediately south of the … north part of the street was called Forest Road. When the railway was built in 1862 a lane to Milton Lilbourne was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… trade. The Spetchley station of the Bristol and Birmingham railway is only four miles east of the city, and in 1845 an act was passed for a railway from Oxford to Wolverhampton, with a branch of a mile … Stourport has been completed. The Birmingham and Bristol railway enters the county from Birmingham, and passing a …
A History of the County of Essex
… Worming- ford failed to derive the economic benefit that a railway in the parish would have brought. By 1929 there were …
A History of the County of Essex
… From 1877 Chambers's horse-drawn omnibus ran between the railway station at Bures (Suff.) (opened in 1849) and …