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Queensbury: land required for new road between station and town; Abraham Briggs Foster,...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1189/201
What’s it about?
This record is about the Queensbury: land required for new road between station and town; Abraham Briggs Foster,... dating from 1889 - 1891 in the series Great Northern Railway Company: Surveyor and Estate Agent: Correspondence Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1189/201
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1889 - 1891
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Description (What the record is about)
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Queensbury: land required for new road between station and town; Abraham Briggs Foster, John Foster, William Foster, Robert John Foster, Frederick Charles Foster and Herbert Anderton Foster (partners in John Foster & Son, manufacturers, Queensbury); with copy of conveyance dated 1 Jan 1884 from Richard Ayston (farmer, Halifax) to GNR of land at Clayton; includes complaint from Isaac Hellewell (Wicklow Hall, Queensbury) concerning damage caused by construction of new road
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- with plans
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- 460
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Conveyancing
- Railways
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5099908/
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Series information
RAIL 1189
Great Northern Railway Company: Surveyor and Estate Agent: Correspondence Files
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