Catalogue description Records regarding railways in EXMOOR, PORLOCK, etc.
This record is held by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
Reference: | DD\BR\bn/31 |
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Title: | Records regarding railways in EXMOOR, PORLOCK, etc. |
Description: |
Two letters from John Knight of Simonsbath to Charles Bailey, Nynehead, concerning a rail road, with inclined planes, from Porlock to Exmoor Forest, 1826-7. Letter, with prospectus, from the Somersetshire and North Devon Junction Railway Company, concerning the extension of a line to Porlock, and the proposed development of the harbour, dependent on the good will of Capt. Blathwayt, 1845. Plan, on scale of 2 miles to one inch, showing Exmoor with G.W.R. railway, and a proposed ropeway between Porlock Bay and Picketstones Shaft, itself lying between Rogers Shaft near Simonsbath and Withypool; undated. Blueprint, endorsed "Exmoor Ironstone Deposit", showing boundaries of Exmoor Forest, proposed railway, and tramway to pits or workings; undated. c.1850-55. Agreement between George William Blathwayt and Frederick Winn Knight of Wolverley House (co. Worcs.), esq., M.P., concerning the construction of a double line of locomotive narrow gauge railway from the property of said Knight on the forest of Exmoor to the harbour of Porlock, 1860. |
Date: | 1826-1860 |
Held by: | Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 7 docts. |
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