Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOXFIELD

FOXFIELD, a railway station adjacent to the boundary between Cumberland and Lancashire; at the head of the Duddon estuary, ¾ of a mile SSW of Broughton-in-Furness. It is the junction station of the Whitehaven and Furness railway with the Furness, Ulverstone, and Lancaster railway.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC       Lancashire AncC
Place: Foxfield

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