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COLNE-VALLEY AND HALSTEAD RAILWAY, a railway in Essex; deflecting from the Colchester, Stour-Valley and Sudbury railway, at Chapel; and going up the Colne river, past Halstead, to Castle-Hedingham. It was opened to Halstead in 1860, -to Hedingham in 1861. An extension of it to Haverhill was authorized in 1859, and opened in 1863.
(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: | Essex AncC |
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