Sharpe's road-book for the rail, eastern (western) division1855 |
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24 miles Station Abbey ancient arches Ashton Barnsley Bart beautiful Birmingham Bishop Bishopstoke Bolton borough branch rail Bridge built buried Burton canal chapel Chester Church Fenton cliffs Cross the River Derby Duke Earl East feet high feet long feet span founded gate Goole grammar-school Green Green mile Hall 1 mile Hall 24 handsome Harrogate Hill House Hull junc junction Kirk Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Lord Manchester market-town miles long miles St miles Stat Mirfield monuments Moor Newton North Rode Notice Oakle Street old church old seat Ouse Park 1 mile parliamentary borough parliamentary town Peterborough population port Preston priory rebuilt return one member return two members Road Roman Rugby ruins Saxon seat of Sir Sheffield shire small market-town South spire spot Station for West Stoke stone Thornton Abbey Three miles tower town-hall Trent Tudor style Uttoxeter viaduct Walsden Wood yards long Yorkshire
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Page 60 - She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur They'll have fleet steeds that follow !" quoth young Lochinvar. There was mounting 'mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Fosters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran ; There was racing and chasing on Cannobie...
Page 107 - Principal Seats, Historical Localities, Tunnels, Viaducts, and other objects of interest on the route. In Two Divisions, price Is. each ; the two in One Volume, cloth, 2s. 6d. The Happy Home. By the Author of "Life in Earnest.
Page 21 - Clavis et repagulum totius regni, or, the lock and key of the entire kingdom ; soon after which...
Page 6 - STATION, where the North Union line turns off. A tablet is placed here opposite the spot where Mr. Huskisson was struck down by the engine, at the opening of the line.
Page 6 - Booths. Mr. Huskisson died at the Vicarage here, after his fearful accident. One mile south of Eccles is Trafford Park, the seat of Sir Thomas J. de Trafford, Bart. One mile from hence we reach PATBICEOFT STATION, about a mile from which is Worsley Hall, the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere.
Page 24 - English church, with some fine monuments), forms the junction of the branch to BIRSTAL (Branch). POPULATION, 43,505. Telegraph station at Dewsbury, 3 miles HOTEL.— Coach and Horses. The people here are principally employed in the woollen and mining trades. Close at hand is Old Howley Hall, in ruins.
Page 68 - From tliis station a branch rail, seven miles long, turns off on the left to Aylesbury, which we will describe, and then continue our progress with the main line.
Page 17 - Hall,' a gift of the fairies, the breaking of which, it is said, will bring misfortune to the house."— Sharp's British Gazetteer, From I'enntn the country is flat and uninteresting.
Page 80 - William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, and founder of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1433.
Page 57 - ... ores ; Pembroke has a government dock-yard in which some of the largest ships of the navy have been built; Milford Haven is 'noted for its excellent and spacious harbour; Wrexham and...