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SHREWSBURY AND NORTH WALES RAILWAY, a railway in Salop and Montgomery; from the Shrewsbury and Welshpool line at Westbury to the Oswestry and Newtown line at Llanymynech. It is 13¾ miles long; was authorized in 1862; and was empowered in 1864 to have seven new lines connected with it, aggregately 20 miles long.
(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: | Montgomeryshire Ancient County Shropshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Shrewsbury |
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