Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SIDMOUTH RAILWAY

SIDMOUTH RAILWAY, a railway in Devon; from the Southwestern at Ottery-Road station, 8 miles south by eastward to Sidmouth, with a harbour at S., and a branch ½ a mile long within S. parish. The main line and the harbour were authorized in 1862,-the branch, in 1865; but the entire scheme was in abeyance in 1868.


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

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

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