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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Lancashire

Historical Description

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, a railway extending from Liverpool, Southport, and Preston on the W coast to Goole on the river Ouse in Yorkshire, with many parts and branches in South Lancashire and Yorkshire. It is an amalgamation of the Manchester and Leeds, the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, the Liverpool and Bury, the Hnddersfield and Sheffield, the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, the West Riding Union, the East Lancashire, and other lines. It acquired its present title in 1847, but was not all amalgamated till 1859, and it now has a productive aggregate of 544½ miles. The company possesses a complicated network of lines which tap nearly all the important towns in South Lancashire. From Preston it has access to the port of Fleet-wood by the L. & Y. and L. & N.W. Joint lines, while m South-East Yorkshire it serves Bradford, Halifax, Hudders-field, Dewsbury, Wakefield, Barnsley, and many other important towns. The head offices of the company are at Hunt's Bank, Manchester.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.