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.
DEVIZES RAILWAY, a railway in Wilts, connecting with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line of the Great Western, at Holt, and going 8¼ miles eastward, past Seend, to Devizes. It was opened in 1857; and is now connected, east by northward, with the Hungerford and Reading line at Hungerford.
(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: | Somerset AncC Wiltshire AncC |
| Place: | Devizes |
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