Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLARENCE AND HARTLEPOOL RAILWAYS

CLARENCE AND HARTLEPOOL RAILWAYS, railways in Durham, commencing on the coast at Port Clarence and Hartlepool, connecting these two places, running inland from both, making an aggregate distance of 37 miles, and serving chiefly for the conveyance of coal. See Hartlepool (West).


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "railways"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: County Durham AncC
Place: Port Clarence

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