A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY, a railway from Chester, westward through North Wales, to Holyhead. It was authorized in 1844; executed by R. Stephenson, at a cost of £3, 581, 587; and amalgamated, in 1859, with the London and Northwestern. Its length, exclusive of brauches, is 85 miles. It goes down the left side of the Dee to the vicinity of the sea; goes then along the coast to the vicinity of Bangor; crosses the Menai strait, 3 miles above the head of Beaumaris bay; and goes through Anglesey westward to Bodorgan, and north-westward thence to Holyhead. It traverses tunnels at Chester, Penmaen Rhas, Llandegai, Bangor, Belmont, and Treddraeth; great bridges or viaducts over the Dee, the Clwydd, the Ogwen, the Cegid, and the Cefni; and stupendous tubular bridges over the Conway estuary and the Menai strait. Lines or brauches go from it to Mold, Denbigh, Llandudno, Llanrwst, and Carnarvon. The scenery commanded by it is much less picturesque or extensive than that commanded by the quondam mail road from Shrewsbury to Holyhead; yet includes much beauty, considerable romance, and many glimpses of grandeur.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Chester |
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