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London, England, 1846-11-14 00:00:00

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PROPOSED RAILWAY from YEOVIL and
BRIDPORT to EXETER, with Branehes.—Proposed Rail-
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ristol and Exeter
tßlen and Exeter Railway, near
Railways, at Exc •T, with branches to Sidmoutit and to Chn-mouth,
port,B Somerset,
et
the Southt Devon
Ilminster, and to
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kee,
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Crcwkerne, with powers of snle rnd le ;se to and contribution by the
Great Western Railway Company.—Notice is hereby given. that
APPLICATION IS intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing
session for an Act to authorise the construction of the severs,'
railways hereinafter mentioned, with all proper works and con-
veniences, roads and approaches, connected therewith, that is to
say :
A railway commencing by a junction .u:th the Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth Railway, in the parish of Bradford Abbas, in the
county of Dorset, in or near to a field in that parish, distinguished
by the number 21 on the plans of t he said railway referred to in the
Act au;.horising the construction thereof, passing thence in, through,
or into tbe several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other
places oi Bradford Abbas and Clifton Maybank, in the county of
; Yeovil, Berwick otherwise Barwick, Stoford, Closworth,
Salton Binharn, Pendomcr, Hardington, Mandeville, West Coker,
East Coker, 'East Chinnock, Haselbury Plucknett, and North Per-
rott, or some of them, in the county of Somerset; Mosterton, South
Perrott, and Broadwinsor, or some of them, in the county of Dorset;
tsterton, Crewkerne, Wayford, Winsham, Cricket Saint
Thomas, Seaborough, and Chard or some of than, in the
county of Somersci ; Thorncombe, CI tardstock, llawkechurch, Stock-
lend, and Dalwood, or some of them, in the counties of Devon and
Dorset, or one of them ; Axminsier, Kihnington, Shutb, Wilmington
Widworthy, Cotleigh, Offwell, Monkton, Honiton, Honiton Borough,
Awltscombe, Iltickerell, Feniton, Gittisham, Otlery Saint Mary,
Tallaton, Whimple, Broadclist, Pelt more, Honiton, Clist, Pinhoe,
and Heavitree, or seine of the 11, In the county of Devon ; Saint
Sidwell and Saint David, ill the county of the city of Exeter ; Saint
Paul, Allhallows on the Walls, and St. Edmund on the Bridge, or
some of them, in the city and county of the city of Exeter ; and
Saint Thomas the Apostle, in the county of Devon; and terminating
in the last named parish at or near Saint Thomas, otherwise

Cowick-strect, by a junction with the Foe of the South Devon
Railway.

Also a railway diverging out of the firstly mentioned intended
railway at or near to Queen-street-road, in the palish of St. David,

in the said county of the city of Exeter, and passing in or through
and terminating within the same parish, in a field in that parish dis-
tinguished by the number 24 on the plans of the Bristol and
Exeter Railway referred to in the Act authorising the con-
struction thereof, and in or near to which field the said intended
railway is intended to form a junction with the said Bristol and
Exeter Railway.
Also a railway diverging put °f n.* Vad men.) mentioned intended
Teteeeet, re -.1.--i-areSn. of Ottery Saint Mary, in the
county of Devon, on the north side of the road leading n 0...
to (losforo, passing thence in, through, er into the several parishes,
townships, and extra-parochial or other places of Ottery Saint Mary,
Tipton Saint John, Fen Ottery otherwise Yen Ottery, Harpford,
Stoptiord otherwise Sto.ord, Sidhury, Sidford, Salcombe Regis, and
Sidmoutii, or some of them, in the county of Devon, and terminating
in the said parish of Sidmouth near the gas works, in a field adjoin-
ing Searle's brewery, on the west side of the road to Exeter, with an
extension rhyerging thereout at a point distant about 25 chains to the
north of the aforesaid intended terminus, passingin, through, or into
the said parishes of Shin-loath, Sidbury, and Salcombe Regis, or some
of them, and terminating lu the said parishes of Salcombe Regis and
Sidmontit, or one of them, in the field known as the Marsh or Ham,
adjoining the beach, on the east side of Sid mouth town.
Also a railway diverging out of the said first-mentioned intended
railway in or near to a field coiled Common Mead others ise Lower
Mead, now or lately belonging to and in the occupation of William
Notley, situate in the patish of Chard, in the county of Somerset,
passing thence in, through, or into the severe' parishes, townships,
and extra-parechial or other places of Thorncombe, in the counties
of
iDnsehvaom, Chardnand B
Dorset, or one of them, Chard, Cricket Saint Thomas,
herbe, East Dowlish etber), Chea nfrotiv.milbshe, i
King-
ston, Donyatt, Broadway, Ilminster, and Ilton, or some of ,them, in
the county of Somerset, an terminating in the said parish of 11-
we (Fake,
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ivesGtileps, o,criiischk, et3l
is al-
minster in or near to a field i i that p..rish distinguished by the num-
ber 41a in the plans of the Chard Canal Ra !bray referred to in the
Act authorising
saidhoisinignttel:ideeedorviyrwuaction'thereof, and in or near to which
field
is intended to forma junction with
the said Chard Canal Railway.
Also a railway diverging out of the said firstly mentioned intended
railway, in or near to an arable field situate partly in the parish
of
Crewkerne, in the county of Somerset, and partly in the perish of
Misterton, in the same county, now or lately belonging to William
Hallett, deceased, and occupied by William Aplin, and situate on the
east side of the road leading from Crewkerne to Bedport, passing
thence in. through, or into the several parishes of Miste: ton, Crew-
kerne, North Perrott, Haselbur3-, Plucknett, and Merriott, in the
county of Somerset, and South Perrott, in the county of Dorset, or
some of them, and terminating in the said parish of Crewkerne in or
near to a field to that parish distinguished by the number 53 on the
plans of the Crewkerne braneh of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
retered to in the Act authorising the construction thereof, and in
which field the said intended railway is intended to form a junction
with the said Crewkerne branch.
Also a railway commencing by a junction with the said Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, in the irrish of Bradpole, in the
county of Dorset, in or near to a field in that parish distinguished by
the number 15 on the plans of the said Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth Railway, hereinbefore referred to, passing thence in, through,
or into, the several parishes, townships, and extraiparoehial or other
places of Brodpole, Bridport, Weldlteh, Bothenhaumton,• Burton
Bradstock, Alllngton, Loders, Symondsbury, Whitechurch Canoni-
corum, Netherbury, Pillesdon otherwise Pilsdon, Broadwinsor, Bet-
tiscombe, and Marshwood, or some of them, in the county of Dorset,
Chard, in the county of Soper et, and Axminster, Thorncombe,
Ilawkechurch, and Chardstock, in the counties of Devon and
Dorset, or one of them, and terminating in a field called Ridge, part
of Axe Farm, In the last named parish. in the occupation of George
Bradley and John Bradley, or one of them, where the same is in-
tended to join the line of the said first-mentioned intended railway.
And also a railway diverging out of the sold lastly mentioned in-
tended railway, in the parish of Marshwood, in the county of Dorset,
at or near to a place called Shaves Cross, passing thence in, through,
or into the several parishes' townships, and extra parochial or other
places of Marshwood, Pillesdon otherwise Inisdon, Bettiscombe,
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Rev. John Dixon ales, and occupied by William Vallins, and abut-
the sea.
And it is intended by such Act to take power to alter, divert, or
p p whether
other roads, streets, railways, tramways, aqueduaeltsls,uccah turnpikenals, stre daamns,
and rivers, upon or adjoining the lines of the said Intended railways
or works respectively, which it may be necessary to Interfere with in
the construction, or for the pm noses of the said intended railways
and works. _ .

p I, or extinguish
all existing repeal,
manner impede
frairgtihitesroirnteprnivdieldegbeyssuwchhicAhet to•aryeea
would
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or interfere with the construction, maintenance, or use of the said
intended railways and works, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is fin deer intended by such Act to incorporate a com a
and to enable such company to purchase lands and houses by any,.
pulsion or agreement, for the purposes of the said proposed railway,
branch railway, and works, and to levy tolls, rates, and duties, i
n
respect of the use thereof, and to giant certainexemptions from such
for the purpose of contributing towards
tolls, rates, and duties, and to sell or let on lease the said undertak-
ing, with all or any of their powers in relation thereto, to the Great
Western Railway Company, anadndtoenejloiyablsue e geld last-mentioned
eoMing shareholders in, the said under-
Company, to purchase or rent, and if need be to execute the said
Powers, and to raise
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capitala yf,
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tdhteopuusreop, exercise,fo,s
eod becoming
taking.
And it is also intended by such Act to authorise the sale or lease to
the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and to the South Devon
Railway Company, jointly or severally, of the whole or any pat t of
the said intended railway secondly hereinbefore described, and ot the
whole or any part of so much of the said intended railway firstly
hereinbefore described, as von be situate in the comity of the city of
Exeter, and in the parish of Saint Thomas the Apostle, in the county
of Devon, and to enable such last-mentioned Companies, or either of
them, to purchase or rent the same, or to contribute funds towards
tile construction thereof, and for those purposes, or either of them, to
raise additional capital, and also to enable the said Great Western
Railway Company, and the said Thistel and Exeter Railway Com-
pany, and the said South Devon Railway Company, to enter into and
carry into effect such arrangements as may be agreed on for the use
in common by such Companies of the aforesaid portions of the said
intended railways, and of the stations of the said Companies re-
spectively situate thereon or adjoining thereto.
And for the purposes aforeseld it is further intended by such
Act to alter, amend, and enlarge some of the powers and provi-
sions of the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, or some of them,
that is to say—the several Acts relating to the Great Western
Railway, and the railways and branch railways forming part of that
undertaking, and belonging to the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, bearing date as follows, that is to say—An Act of the fifth
and sixth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William
the Fourth, cap. 107 ; an Act of the sixth year of the same reign,
• cap. 33 ; an Act of the first year of the reign of her present Ma-
jesty Queen Victoria, cap. 91 ; an Act of the first year of the same
reign, cap. 92 ; an Act of the second year of the some reign, cap. 27 ;
an Act of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his said late
Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 77 ; an Act of the first and
second years of the reign of her send present Majesty Queen Victoria,
cap. 24 ; en Act of the fifth year of the same reign, cap. 28 : an Act
of the sixth year of the same
Act of reign, cap. 10; an Act of the seventh
year of the same reign, caP. 3; an the eighth and ninth y ears
of the same reign, cap. 40 ; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of
the same reign, cap. 188: an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the
and an Act ot the ninth year of the same reign,
same reign, cap. 191;
;the cap. 14 " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway:Act, 1845,"
• and the " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway (Amendment)
i Act, 1846;" an Act of the seventh and eighth years of the reign