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.
CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY, a railway in South Wales. It commences at Knighton, on the verge of Wales adjacent to Salop; and goes south-westward, through the counties of Radnor and Brecon, to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire. The part of it to Llandrindod, 20 miles long, was authorized in 1859, under the name of the Central Wales; and the part thence to Llandovery, 26¼ miles long, was authorized in 1860, under the name of the Central Wales Extension. It has such junctions and connexions with other railways, and such extensions of its own, as to give a continuous and direct route from Manchester and Central England, through Shrewsbury, to Swansea, Llanelly, and Milford-Haven. It was opened to Llanwrtyd in May 1867, and farther in 1868; and it is worked by the Northwestern.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Administrative units: | Radnorshire AncC |
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