Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHREWSBURY AND STAFFORD RAILWAY

SHREWSBURY AND STAFFORD RAILWAY, a railway in Salop and Staffordshire; from the Shrewsbury and Birmingham at Wellington north-eastward, past Newport and Gnosall, to the Northwestern at Stafford. It is part of the Shropshire Union system; and, as such, was leased to the Northwestern.


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

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

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