Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RICKMANSWORTH, AMERSHAM, AND CHESHAM RAILWAY

RICKMANSWORTH, AMERSHAM, AND CHESHAM RAILWAY, a railway in Herts and Bucks; from a junction with the Watford and Rickmansworth and the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth railways, at Rickmans-worth, 8½ miles north-westward to Chesham. It was authorized in 1862, on a capital of £90,000 in shares and £30,000 in loans; but, in April 1868, was not begun.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Buckinghamshire AncC       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Rickmansworth

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