Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SALISBURY and DORSET railway

SALISBURY and DORSET railway, a railway in Wilts and Dorset; from Salisbury 18½ miles south-westward to a junction at West Parley, near Wimborne. It was authorized in 1861.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Dorset AncC       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Salisbury

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