Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRISTOL AND PORTISHEAD RAILWAY

BRISTOL AND PORTISHEAD RAILWAY, a railway from the Bristol and Exeter at Bedminster, westnorth-westward to Portishead, with works at Portishead. It comprises railway lines, 10 miles long, opened in 1867, and a pier at Portishead, and other works there, required to be completed in 1870.


(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: Somerset AncC

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