Wellow railway station was a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Wellow in the county of Somerset in England. Opened on 20 July 1874,...
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Wellow is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Bath. The parish, which includes the hamlets of Twinhoe, White...
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The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR, also known as the S&D, S&DR or SDJR), was an English railway line jointly owned by the Midland Railway (MR)...
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River Somer; while the Wellow Brook and the Fosse Way Roman road run through Radstock. Chard is the most southerly town in Somerset and one of the highest...
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Midford an arm also ran via Writhlington to Radstock, with a tunnel at Wellow. A feature of the canal was the variety of methods used at Combe Hay to...
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Single Hill Halt was a small railway station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway serving small villages between Wellow and Radstock, about seven miles...
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the history of the Somerset coalfield. The Avon Valley Railway serves Avon Riverside railway station. The Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust is based...
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North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 494. The parish of Corston was part of the Wellow Hundred. The...
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Somerset Railway was a railway line in the West of England that connected Bristol with Radstock, through Pensford and further into northern Somerset,...
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proprietors formed a committee to construct the Somerset Coal Canal with two branches into the Cam Brook and Wellow Brook Valleys, and from a junction at Midford...
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Midsomer Norton (redirect from Welton, Somerset)
by a station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway (S&D) but this closed in 1966, and by a second station on the Bristol and North Somerset Railway at Welton...
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Midford railway station was a single-platform station on the Bath extension of the Somerset and Dorset Railway, just to the north of the point where the...
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Evercreech Junction was a railway station at Evercreech on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Originally opened in 1862 as "Evercreech" on the original...
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village. The parish of Camerton was part of the Wellow Hundred. Originally a farming village in North Somerset, its vicar from 1800 was the amateur antiquarian...
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Radstock rail accident (category Railway accidents and incidents in Somerset)
single-line section between the crossing places at the stations at Radstock and Wellow, the S&D Railway had constructed a signal box at Foxcote. Ostensibly...
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Midford (category Villages in Bath and North East Somerset)
(Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset) and is part of five parishes (Southstoke, Hinton Charterhouse, Wellow, Freshford and Limpley Stoke). Although...
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Radstock (redirect from Radstock, Somerset)
the Kilmersdon Hundred, The Great Western Railway, and the Somerset and Dorset Railway, established stations and marshalling yards in the town. Radstock...
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canals. Railways were constructed throughout the area, influenced by the needs of the city of Bristol, which lies just to the north of Somerset, and to...
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Brotherhood of Ruralists (category Arts in Somerset)
Brotherhood of Ruralists is a British art group founded in 1975 in Wellow, Somerset, to paint nature. Their work is figurative with a strong adherence...
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Paulton (redirect from Paulton, Somerset)
two small railways stations: Paulton Radford and Timsbury Halt and Paulton Halt on the Camerton Branch of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway. Although...
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Twerton (category Areas of Bath, Somerset)
half-way between Dieppe and Paris. The parish of Twerton was part of the Wellow Hundred. In 1911 the civil parish had a population of 13,114. On 9 November...
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Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County...
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Monkton Combe (category Civil parishes in Somerset)
starts in the north east at Monkton Combe and stretches south west through Wellow to Shoscombe. The total population of this ward at the 2011 census was 3...
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list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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was a railway station at Bawdrip on the Bridgwater branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Although the line had opened in 1890, station facilities...
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List of people from Bath (category People from Bath, Somerset)
Blahnik (born 1942) – shoe designer Sir Peter Blake (born 1932) lived in Wellow village, near Bath, in the 1970s. Peter Brown (born 1967) – painter James...
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Shoscombe (category Civil parishes in Somerset)
is a small village and civil parish in the valley of the Wellow Brook in north-east Somerset, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Bath, England. The parish...
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Taunton bus station was situated on Tower Street, Taunton, Somerset, England. It was opened by the Western National Omnibus Company in 1953 and closed...
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Two Tunnels Greenway (3.5 miles & Colliers Way (2.5 miles): Bath to Wellow, Somerset Tyne Riverside Country Park: Newcastle to Wylam, Tyne and Wear (4 miles)...
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List of monastic houses in England (section Somerset)
Warks. Northants. Norfolk Suffolk Essex Herts. Beds. Bucks. Oxon. Glos. Somerset Wiltshire Berkshire Kent Surrey Hampshire Dorset Devon Cornwall Heref....
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