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Notice about Proposed Railway, 1871
Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for leave to bring in a Bill, and to pass an Act for all or some of the following purposes:
To authorize the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company (hereafter called the Company) to make and maintain the railway following, with all proper stations, approaches, works, and conveniences connected therewith.
A railway commencing in the Parish of Treeton, in the West Riding of the County of York, by a junction with the railway of the Company, at a point on that railway 221/2 chains, or thereabouts, measured in a westerly direction along the railway of the Company, from the centre of the booking office of the Kiveton Park Station of such railway, and terminating in the Parish of Chesterfield, in the County of Derby, in a field belonging, or reputed to belong, to the Duke of Devonshire, and in the occupation of Enoch Goodwin, at a point distant from the centre of the fence which divides that field from a certain newly formed street called Brewery Street, seven and a half yards, or thereabouts, measured in a northerly direction, and at a right angle with the said fence, and which said point in the said fence is distant 43 yards, or thereabouts to the Baptist Chapel adjoining the said street called Brewery Street, and which said intended railway will be made, or pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say - Treeton, Ulley, Brampton-en-le-Morthen, Aston-with-Aughton, Todwick, Thorpe Salvin, Harthill-with-Woodhall, otherwise Harthill, all in the West Riding of the County of York, Killamarsh, Beighton, Eckington, Renishaw, Staveley, Brimington, Whittington, Tapton, Newbold, and Dunston, and Chesterfield, all in the County of Derby.
