Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TENBURY RAILWAYS

TENBURY RAILWAYS, three railways meeting at tenbury, on the NW verge of Worcestershire; the first, called the Tenbury, 5¼ miles eastward from Woofferton, authorized in 1859 and opened in 1861; the second, called the Tenbury and Bewdley, 14 miles west-south-westward from Bewdley, authorized in 1860 and opened in 1864; the third, called the Teme Valley, 21¼ miles north-westward from Worcester, authorized in 1866.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "three railways meeting at tenbury"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Worcestershire AncC
Place: Tenbury

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