Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHREWSBURY AND NORTH WALES RAILWAY

SHREWSBURY AND NORTH WALES RAILWAY, a railway in Salop and Montgomery; from the Shrewsbury and Welshpool line at Westbury to the Oswestry and Newtown line at Llanymynech. It is 13¾ miles long; was authorized in 1862; and was empowered in 1864 to have seven new lines connected with it, aggregately 20 miles long.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Montgomeryshire AncC       Shropshire AncC
Place: Shrewsbury

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