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.
NORTHERN and EASTERN railway, a railway in Essex, Middlesex, and Herts; from a junctionwith the Eastern Counties line at Stratford, north-by-eastward to Newport, 3 miles S S W of Saffron-Walden; with a branch from Hoddesdon curvingly west-north-westward to Hertford. It was authorized in 1836; it has a total length of 44 miles; it was leased in 1844, for999 years, to the Eastern Counties system; and it passed, with the rest of that system, in 1862, into the amalgamation constituting the Great Eastern.
(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: | Essex AncC Hertfordshire AncC Middlesex AncC |
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