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