Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINCHCOMBE AND MIDLAND RAILWAY

WINCHCOMBE AND MIDLAND RAILWAY, a railway in the N of Gloucester; from a junction with the Ashchurch and Evesham line near Beckford, 5¾ miles south-south-eastward, to Winchcombe. It was authorized in 1866.


(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
Place: Winchcombe

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