Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LISKEARD AND LOOE RAILWAY

LISKEARD AND LOOE RAILWAY, a mineral railway in Cornwall; from a junction with the Liskeard and Caradon, at Liskeard, southward 7 miles to the Looe navigation. It was authorized in 1858; and a capital of £13,000, in £25 shares, was to be provided for it by the Liskeard and Looe Canal company. The steepest gradient in it is 1 in 63. Both this railway and the Liskeard and Caradon act as feeders to the Cornwall railway.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a mineral railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Cornwall AncC
Place: Liskeard

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.