Held at:	Private Collection
Reference:	rs/gh
Source:	Original Documents: G Hales Collection
Title:	Photograph of large scale map of the route of the Golden Valley Railway and the diversion of the River Dore at Bridge Farm
Place name:	Abbeydore, Ewyas Harold
Date:	1904

Description:

Photographof a large scale map with land reference numbers, dated 1904, detailing the routeof the Golden Valley Railway and the repositioned river near the boundarybetween Bridge Farm [to the west] and Lower House Farm [to the east]. LowerHouse Farm was previously part of the Abbeydore Court Estate owned by ThomasFreke-Lewis, and effectively disappeared when it was acquired by the governmentin the 1940s to become part of the Ordnance Depot at Elm Bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Observations:

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.