Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for POOLE and BOURNEMOUTH railway

POOLE and BOURNEMOUTH railway, a railway in Dorset and Hants; from Poole, 8¾ miles east-ward to Bournemouth. It was authorized in 1865, on acapital of £90,000 in shares, and £30,000 in loans.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Dorset AncC       Hampshire AncC
Place: Poole

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