Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PLYMOUTH and DARTMOOR railway

PLYMOUTH and DARTMOOR railway, atram road in Devon; from Crabtree to Dartmoor prison. It was formed under act of 59 George III., on a capital of £35,000; and was authorized in 1865 to be remodelled, on a new capital of £75,000 in shares and £25,000 in loans.


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

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Administrative units: Devon AncC
Place: Plymouth

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