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LEWES AND UCKFIELD RAILWAY, a railway in Sussex; from a junction with the Lewes and Keymer branch of the London and Brighton, 1¾ mile NNW of Lewes, 7¼ miles north-eastward to Uckfield. It was authorized in July 1857, and opened in October 1858; and was sold to the London and Brighton in 1860.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
Administrative units: | Sussex AncC |
Place: | Lewes |
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