Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Box

Box.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., N. Wilts, 5 miles NE. of Bath, 4217 ac., pop. 2203; P.O., T.O.; contains good quarries. Box Tunnel is about 1¾ mile long, and in some places 300 ft. below the surface.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Box AP/CP       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Box

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