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RECORDS OF WANTAGE TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED
Catalogue reference: D\WT
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This record is about the RECORDS OF WANTAGE TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED dating from 1873-1947.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- D\WT
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Title (The name of the record)
- RECORDS OF WANTAGE TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1873-1947
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Berkshire Record Office
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Wantage Tramway Company Limited</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 91 items
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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(acc. 617); (acc. 820).
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <p>A typescript volume of notes towards a history of the Tramway by D.H. Wilson Esq., of Abingdon, is available for consultation in the Local Studies Library, Reading Central Library (reference BV/IF). An illustrated history, The Wantage Tramway by S.H. Pearce Higgins (1958) is in the Record Office Library.</p>
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Company went into voluntary liquidation in 1947, having acted as conveyor of passenger and goods traffic from the centre of the town of Wantage to Wantage Road railway station, the main Western Region line. The course of the tramway track lay along the side of the Wantage - Oxford road and the site is now incorporated in the highway. These archives were presented by the last Chairman of the Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/257367c1-4233-4210-b124-02abc6041ad3/
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RECORDS OF WANTAGE TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED