Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHREWSBURY AND WELSHPOOL RAILWAY

SHREWSBURY AND WELSHPOOL RAILWAY, a railway in Salop and Montgomery; from Shrewsbury 16½ miles westward, past Westbury, to the Oswestry and Newtown at Welshpool, with a branch of 5 miles to Minsterley. It was authorized in 1856; and was leased in 1864 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: Montgomeryshire AncC       Shropshire AncC
Place: Shrewsbury

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