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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 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… fossils of leaves and plants. The London and Brighton railway passes through the parish. The living is a rectory, … have been lately established. The Brighton and Chichester railway was opened to Worthing at the close of 1845: a … have a large paper-mill in the township. The North-Union railway passes through, and the Standish station on the line …
A History of the County of Sussex
… epidemic had cost the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway £15,000; 63 the resort did not recover for several … 74 and facilitated by the electrification of the railway line in 1933 75; by 1938 493 people had season … made, mostly by staying visitors. Besides the Southern Railway many coach companies ran day excursions from London …
A History of the County of Sussex
… station, 79 and the second in 1845, shortly before the railway reached Worthing. 80 In 1791 81 and 1812 82 the … services to Portsmouth and various Sussex towns. 87 The railway line from Shoreham to Worthing was opened in 1845, … evening served the needs of commuters. 96 Worthing's first railway station, which survived in 1978, was a small flint …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Fruit Growers Association had obtained a reduction in railway charges. 57 Special loading facilities for fruit were … 65 There were 82 fruit-growers by 1904, at whose instance railway charges had been reduced several times. There were … of the town, near West Worthing station, and south of the railway at Goring. Some of the estates were owned by the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… west end of the town was built up northwards as far as the railway, which had been opened in 1846. The largest area to … building between the north part of Chapel Road and the railway station before 1875, for instance along Teville Road, … in 1843. 3 Some streets of poorer houses south-east of the railway bridge beside the Broadwater road had been built by …