The Stratford and Moreton Tramway was a 16-mile (25-km) long horse-drawn wagonway which ran from the canal basin at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire...
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Worcester [and] thrived as a stopping place for stagecoaches, in particular The Redesdale Arms and The White Hart Royal." The Stratford and Moreton Tramway was...
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Cotswold Line (section Charlbury to Moreton-in-Marsh)
28 miles (45 km) after Oxford is Moreton-in-Marsh. This was once the southern end of the Stratford and Moreton Tramway. The line then passes the corner...
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Gardens. The first railway in Warwickshire; the Stratford and Moreton Tramway was opened to Stratford in 1826: this was a horse-drawn wagonway, 16 miles...
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River Avon, Warwickshire (redirect from Stratford Avon)
conf R Leam to Tramway Br, Stratford". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. Retrieved 27 November 2021. "Avon- Tramway Br Stratford to Workman Br...
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Transport portal Stratford and Moreton Tramway Avon Ring images & map of mile markers seen along the Stratford on Avon canal "The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal"...
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tramway track of the horse-drawn Stratford and Moreton Tramway. It was designed by John Urpeth Rastrick. It consists of eight elliptical arches, and is...
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Evesham and Wolvercote Junction (just north of Oxford), was opened. It was once the southern end of the Stratford-upon-Avon to Moreton tramway. In the...
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starting point at Worcester the route travels north to Boscobel and then south to Stratford upon Avon. It then continues south to Stow on the Wold before...
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Shipston-on-Stour branch (category Moreton-in-Marsh)
started life as part of the horse-drawn Stratford and Moreton Tramway that ran between Moreton-in-Marsh and Stratford-Upon-Avon, with a branch to Shipston-on-Stour...
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horse-drawn cars began passing through the village, operated by the Stratford and Moreton Tramway on a four-feet gauge rail. After the company's insolvency in...
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River Thames (section Catchment area and discharge)
entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn. The river rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire and flows into the...
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(bypassed), Crudwell, Cirencester, Stow-on-the-Wold, Moreton-in-Marsh, east of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Kenilworth. When first designated in 1922, the...
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River Wye (redirect from Wye and Lugg Navigation and Horse Towing-path Act 1809)
a Vagas Field in both Whitchurch and Chepstow. Philologists such as Edward Lye and Joseph Bosworth in the 18th and early 19th centuries suggested an...
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the branch line from Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston. The station was originally opened on the Moreton in Marsh and Shipston Tramway, which was converted...
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Stratford and Moreton Tramway, an early horse-drawn line. The partnership was also responsible for the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson...
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River Severn (section Etymology and mythology)
Rugby, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. It is then joined by its tributary the River Arrow, before joining the Severn. The rivers Swilgate and Chelt also...
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A38 road (redirect from Alfreton and South Normanton bypass)
but the later road left the Roman line near Naunton in Ripple. The name Stratford Bridge on the county boundary confirms its Roman origin there. The A38...
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Shipston-on-Stour (category Stratford-on-Avon District)
from the horse-drawn Stratford and Moreton Tramway, which had been built ten years before to link Moreton-in-Marsh with Stratford on Avon. In 1889 the...
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the 16 mi (26 km) horse-worked Stratford and Moreton Tramway opened in 1826 with John Urpeth Rastrick as surveyor and Robert Stephenson senior (George's...
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M5 motorway (section Incidents and events)
runs east of West Bromwich and west of Birmingham through Sandwell Valley. It continues past Bromsgrove (and from Birmingham and Bromsgrove is part of the...
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Stratford and Moreton Tramway had been built, opening between Stratford-upon-Avon and Moreton, opening in 1826. It was a horse-operated toll tramway,...
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already absorbed the Stratford and Moreton Tramway (inc 1821 and opened 1826). On 1 July 1861 the WMR leased the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway...
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Cheltenham–Stratford-upon-Avon–Birmingham line, known as the Honeybourne Line, built in 1900–1906, and runs through the Cotswold towns of Winchcombe and Bishop's...
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of the M4 with the A346 road, and Whitminster in Gloucestershire, England near the M5 motorway. The A419 is managed and maintained by a private company...
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M4 motorway (section Elevated and heated section)
Wales. The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh element was largely complete by 1980, though a non-motorway...
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Cross Country Route (category Railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber)
The Birmingham–Bristol section was built as the Birmingham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester Railways before joining the Midland Railway, the...
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(RAF) station and was known as RAF Kemble. The Red Arrows aerobatics team was based there until 1983. Since 2000, it is used for the storage and recycling...
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First West of England (redirect from First Avon and Somerset)
Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Wiltshire. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup. In 1875, George White formed the Bristol Tramways Company and began a horse-drawn...
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The M50 is a motorway in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, England. Sometimes referred to as the Ross Spur, it is a 22 miles (35 km)...
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