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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Waveney like this:
WAVENEY VALLEY RAILWAY, a railway in Norfolk and Suffolk; from a junction with the Eastern Union at Tivetshall south-eastward to Harleston, and thence down the course of the Waveney river, to a junction with the East Suffolk at Beccles. It was authorized, in successive sections, in 1851-9; was opened to Bungay in 1860, to Beccles in 1863; is aggregately 51 miles long; and was amalgamated with the Eastern Union, and through that with the Great Eastern.
Waveney is now part of EAST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how EAST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Waveney itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Waveney, in East Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/17268
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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