Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MORETON-HAMPSTEAD AND SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY

MORETON-HAMPSTEAD AND SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY, a railway in Devon; from a junction with the South Devon line at Wolborough, 12½ miles north north-westward, to Moreton-Hampstead. It was authorized in 1862, on a capital of £105,000 in shares, and £35,000 in loans; and was completed in the early part of 1867.


(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: Devon AncC

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