Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TENDRING HUNDRED RAILWAY

TENDRING HUNDRED RAILWAY, a railway in Essex; consisting of three parts; the first, 2½ miles, from Hythe, on the Colchester and Stour Valley, to Wivenhoe, opened in 1863; the second, 1 mile, into Colchester, opened in 1866; the third, 14 miles, to Weeley and Walton-le-Soken, opened in 1867.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Essex AncC
Place: Tendring

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