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SHREWSBURY AND STAFFORD RAILWAY, a railway in Salop and Staffordshire; from the Shrewsbury and Birmingham at Wellington north-eastward, past Newport and Gnosall, to the Northwestern at Stafford. It is part of the Shropshire Union system; and, as such, was leased to the Northwestern.
(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: | Shropshire AncC Staffordshire AncC |
Place: | Shrewsbury |
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