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A History of the County of Oxford
… Kidlington to Woodstock. The line, which ran beside the G.W.R. line from Kidlington station to Shipton-on-Cherwell, was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Since 1845, however, when the railway works of the G.W.R. came to Swindon, Wiltshire's only large industrial town …
A History of the County of Chester
… in Chester, two of which were large concerns, W. T. Davies & Sons of Canal Street and Thomas Nicholls & Co. … railway wagon and carriage repair, and in 1890 the L.N.W.R. opened the Mold Junction engine shed, housing 40 … Saltney's port was in terminal decline. In the 1880s the G.W.R., owners of the wharf, put up stiff resistance to the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… remodelled and enlarged in the 19th century by the owner G. A. Robbins 67 (d. 1887), 68 and further alterations were … 1871) and grandson George. 164 In 1895 it was bought by H. W. Prior-Wandesforde, from whom it passed to James Jones (d. … Great Lemhill Farm and 236 a. 188 In 1977 it was owned by R. Hinton and Sons and farmed in association with their land …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The Severn Valley line of the West Midland Railway (later G.W.R.), which opened in 1862, ran along the river bank, with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 47 The South Wales railway, which became part of the G.W.R. system in 1863, was built across the south-east side of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… completed in 1985. Ekwall, Eng. Place-Names, 18. Below. S.R.O., DD/SLM 14; Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. cxxix. 19-20. V.C.H. … Religious Hos. (1971), 59. Medieval Religious Hos. 59; R. W. Dunning, 'The abbey of the Princes: Athelney abbey, Som.', … Canals of SW. Eng. (1967), 49, 65. E. T. Macdermot, Hist. G.W.R. rev. C. R. Clinker (1964), ii. 73, 84, 226. C. R. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the 19th century was resisted by barge owners supported by W. R. Anstice and many of the parish's industrialists. … until filled c. 1944. 13 The Madeley branch of the G.W.R., opened in 1854, had a station near Madeley Court and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to the north, including Starveall Farm and bounded by the G.W.R. line from Swindon (Wilts.) to Gloucester and by the later …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of which a stone bearing the date 1683 and the initials R. and M.D. has been reset, and one at the Merrin. Tusculum, … built in the later 1860s, probably for the solicitor J. J. G. Borlase. 99 A house on the Gloucester road was built in … had been sold with 41 a. in 1887 to Helen Lucas. 21 M. W. Colchester-Wemyss disposed of most of the remaining land …