Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWPORT and USK railway

NEWPORT and USK railway, a railway in Monmouthshire; from the Eastern Valleys line of the Monmouthshire system, 11½ miles eastward, to a junction with the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk, and Pontypool, at Gwehelog. It was authorised in 1865, on a capital of £138,000 in shares, and £46,000 in loans.


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

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

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