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SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY, a railway in Salop and Herefordshire; from Shrewsbury southward, past Church-Stretton, Ludlow, and Leominster, into junction with the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford line at Hereford. It is 51 miles 1ong; was authorized in 1846; and was leased in 1862 to jointly the Northwestern and the Great Western.
(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: | Herefordshire Ancient County Shropshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Shrewsbury |
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