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.
SOUTH WALES AND GREAT WESTERN DIRECT RAILWAY, a railway in Monmouth, Gloucester, and Wilts; from the South Wales line and Chepstow, east-by-southward, to the Great Western at Wootton-Bassett. It includes a bridge over the Severn, is 40¾ miles long, and was authorized in 1865; but had not been begun at the end of 1867.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Gloucestershire AncC Monmouthshire AncC Wiltshire AncC |
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