Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TRENT

TRENT, a r. station with telegraph in the E of Derbyshire; on the Midland line from Derby, at the forking of the lines toward Nottingham and Leicester, 8½ miles ESE of Derby. A middle-class college was founded in its vicinity in the latter part of 1866, and was estimated to cost £20,000.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a r station with telegraph"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Derbyshire AncC
Place: Trent

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