Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROSS and MONMOUTH railway

ROSS and MONMOUTH railway, a railway in Herefordshire and Monmouthshire; from a junction with the Hereford and Gloucester line at Ross, 11 miles south-westward, to a junction with the Monmouth and Pontypool line at Monmouth. It was authorized in 1865, on a capital of £120,000 in shares, and £40,000 in loans.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Herefordshire AncC       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Ross

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