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.
PRESTON and WYRE railway, a railway in Lancashire; from a junction with other lines at Preston, north-westward to Fleetwood, with branches to Lytham and Blackpool. It was authorized in 1835, on a capital of £130,000 in shares, and £40,000 in loans; it afterwards acquired powers for further capital of £307,000 inshares, and £126,000 in loans; it was leased in 1846 tojointly the Northwestern and the Lancashire and Yorkshire, in the proportion of one-third to the former and two-thirds to the latter; and it underwent improvement, under an act of 1865, on a new capital, by the two leasingcompanies, of £24,000 in shares, and £6,000 in loans.
(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: | Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Preston |
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