A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY, a railway in Westmoreland. It connects with the Lancaster and Carlisle railway at Oxenholme; goes northward to Kendal; curves thence toward a westerly direction; and terminates at the village of Windermere. It was formed in 1846-7, on a capital of £231, 000; it is 10¼ miles long; and it was leased, along with the Lancaster and Carlisle, for a period of 900 years, to the London and Northwestern. Wordsworth, when the project of it was yet in embryo, indignantly denounced it as a wrongous intrusion upon the beauties of the Lake region, and said, - "Baffle the threat, bright scene from Orrest Head, Given to the pausing traveller s rapturous glance: lead for thy peace, thou beautiful romance Of nature; and, if human hearts be dead, Speak, passing winds; ye torrents, with your strong And constant voice, protest against the wrong !"
(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: | Westmorland AncC |
| Place: | Kendal |
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