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.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, a railway from London to York, with branches. It is an amalgamation of the London and York and the Direct Northern; goes by way of Peterborough, Newark, and Retford; has a loop line from Peterborough, through Boston and Lincoln, to the main line at Retford; has branches to St. Albans, Hertford, Hatfield, Sutton, Spalding, and the Isle of Axholme; possesses parliamentary powers for 335½ miles, but had, in 1868, only 283 miles; and has cognexions with the Hertford, Luton, and Dunstable, the Edgware, Hinhgate, and London, the Metropolitan Junction, the Nottingham and Grantham, the Leeds, Brentford, and Halifax, the York and North Midland, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, the Garston and Liverpool, and four lines in Cheshire. The orininal line was authorized in 1846.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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