Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTHAMPTON and BANBURY JUNCTION railway

NORTHAMPTON and BANBURY JUNCTION railway, a railway in the counties of Northampton, Oxford, and Gloucester. It comprises a line from the Northwestern at Blisworth, west-south-westward, to the Banbury and Buckingham, at Farthinghoe, authorized in 1863, on a capital of £140,000 in shares and £46, 600 in loans; additional works for that line, authorized in 1865, on a further capital of £145,000 in shares and £48, 300 in loans; and an extension south-westward from Banbury to Chipping-Norton and northwest-by-westward thence to Blockley, authorised in 1865, on an additional capital of £500,000 in shares and £166, 600 in loans. The total length is 51¾ miles.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC       Northamptonshire AncC       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Northampton

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