Held at:

Private Collection

Reference:

rs/gh

Source:

Original Documents: G Hales Collection

Title:

Photograph of Sale Agreement and Plan of property sold to the Golden Valley Railway Company by Thomas Freke Lewis, Esq.

Place name:

Abbeydore, Ewyas Harold

Date:

1877 -1878

Description:

Photograph of Sale Agreement and Plan of property in the parish of Abbeydore sold to the Golden Valley Railway Company by Thomas Freke-Lewis, Esq. in 1877 for the construction of the first part of the line from Pontrilas to Dorstone.

 

 

Observations:

Thomas Freke-Lewis was one of the founding shareholders and advocates of the Golden Valley Railway.

This is part of a wider collection of documents pertaining to a legal dispute in 1880 between the Golden Valley Railway Company and Miss Elizabeth Pugh concerning diversion of the river Dore during construction of the railway.

 


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