Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTHAMPTON and PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY

NORTHAMPTON and PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY, a railway chiefly along the S E border of Northamptonshire, but crossing two small wings of Huntingdonshire; commencing in a junction with the London and Northwestern at Blisworth; going north-by-eastward thence to the neighbourhood of Northampton; proceeding thence, north-eastward and north-north-eastward, past Wellingborough, Thrapston, and Oundle, to the neighbourhood of Wansford; and going thence eastward into junction with the Great Northern at Peterborough. It runs, all the way from Northampton to Peterborough, down the valley of the Nen; but it frequently crosses and re-crosses the river. It was formed by the London and Birmingham railway company; and it went, with the rest of that railway, in 1846, into the amalgamations which constituted the London and 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: Huntingdonshire AncC       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Northampton

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