The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-26 00:00:00

PROPOSED RAILWAY from YEOVIL and
BRIDPORT to EXETER, with Branches.—Proposed Rail
ways from the Wilts, Somerset, end Weymouth Railway, near Yeo-
vil, and near Bridport, to the South Devon and Bristol and Exeter
Railways, at Exeter, with branches to Sidniouth and to Charmouth,
near Lyme, and to the Chard Canal Railway, at Ilminster, and to
the Crew-kerne Branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, near
Crewkerne, with powers of sale and lease 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 several
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 with 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 24 on the plans of the said railway referred to in the
Act authorising the construction thereof, passing thence In, through,
or Into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other
places of Bradford Abbas and Clifton Maybank, in the county of
Dorset ; Yeovil, Berwick otherwise Barwick, Stoford, Closworth,
Batton Bingham, Pendomer, 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
Perrolt, and Broadwinsor, or some of them, in the county of Dorset;
Misterton, Crewkerne, Wayford, Winsham, Cricket Saint
Thomas, Sesisorough, and Chard or some of them, in the
county of Somerset; Thorncombe,Chardstock,llawkechurch, Stock-
find, and Dalwood, or some of them, in the counties of Devon and
Dorset, or one of them ; Axminster, Kilmington, Shute, Wilmington
Widworthy, Cotieigh, Offwell, Monkton, Honiton, Honiton Borough,
A wliscombe, Buckerell, Feniton, Gittisham, Ottery Saint Mary,
Tallaton, Whimple, Broadclist, Poltimore, Honiton, Clist, Pinhee,
and Heavitree, or some of then, in the county of Devon; Saint
Sidwell and Saint David, in 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-street, by a junction with the line of the South Devorf
Railway. • . • • • • •
Also a railway diverging oat of the firstly mentioned intended
railway at or near to Queen-street-road, in the parish of St. David,
In the said county of the city of Exeter, and pissing in or through
and terminating within the same parish, in a field in that parish dis-
tinguished by the number 21 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 out of the said firstly mentioned intended
railway at Taleford, in the parish of Ottery Saint Mary, in the
county or Devon, on the north side of the road leading from Taleford
to Gosfor.l, passing thence in, through, or Into the several par sties.
townships, and extra-parochial or other places of Ottery Saint Mary,
Tipton Saint John, Fen Ottery otherwise Yen Ottery, Harpford,
Stopford otherwise Stoford, Sidbury, Sidford, Saicombe Regis, and
Sidmouth, 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 diverging thereout at a point distant about 25 chains to the
north of the aforesaid intended terminus, passing in, through, or into
the said parishes of Sidmouth, Sidbury, and Salcombe Regis, or some
of them, and terminating in the said parishes of Salcombe Regis and
Sidmouth, or one of them, in the field known as the Marsh or Ham,
adjoining the beach, on the east side of Sidmouth town.
Also a railway diverging out of the said first-mentioned intended
railway in or near to a field called Common Mead otherwise Lower
Mead, now or lately belonging to and in the occupation of William
Notley, situate in the parish of Chard, in the county of Somerset,
passing thence in, through, or into the several parishes, townships,
and extra-parochial or other places of Thorncombe, in the counties
of Devon and Dorset, or one of them, Chard, Cricket Saint Thomas,
Winsham, Chard Borough, Chaffcombe, Knoll St. Giles, Cricket Mal-
herbe, East Dowlish otherwise Dowlish Wake, West Dowlish, King-
ston, Donyatt, Broadway, Ilminster, and Ilion, or some of them, in
the county of Somerset, mil terminating in the said parish of ll-
minster in or near to a field in that parish distinguished by the num-
ber 41a in the plans of the Chard Canal Railway referred to in the
Act authorising the construction thereof, and in or near to which
field the said intended railway is intended to form a 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 parish of
Misterton, in the same count 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 Bridport, passing
thence in, through, or into the several parishes of Misterton, Crew-
kerne, North Perrott, Haselbury, Piucknett, 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 branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
refered 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 p 'fish 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 extra• Parochial or other
places of Bradpole, Bridport, Walditth, Bothenhampton, Burton
Bradstock, Allington, Loders, Sytnondsbury, Whitechurch Canoni-
contra, Netherhury, Pillesdon otherwise Pilsdon, Broadwinsor, Bet-
tiscombe, and Marshwood, or some of them, in the comity of Dorset,
Chard, in the county of Somers-et, and Axminster, Thorncombe,
Hawkechurch, 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 said 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, i.hrough,
or into the several parishes, townships, and extra parochial or other
places of Marshwood, Pillesdon otherwise Pilsdon, Bettlscombe,
Whiteciturch Canonicorum, Wootton Fitxpaine, Wootton Abbotts,
Catherstone Lewiston, Charmouth, and Lymo Regis, or some of them,
in the county of Dorset, and terminating in the said parish of Cha •
mouth, in or near to a meadow field now or lately belonging to tin
Rev. John Dixon Hales, and occupied by William Vallins, and abut
ting en the eastern side of the road leading from Charmouth
the sea.

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other roads, streets, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams,
and rivers, upon or adjoining the lines of
nether said intended railways
or works respectively, which it may be cesary to interfere with in
the construction, or for the purposes of the said intended railways
and works.
And it is further intended by such Act to vary, repeal, or extinguish
all existing rights or privileges which would in any manner impede
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 further intended by such Act to incorporate a company,
and to enable such company to purchase lands and houses by com-
pulsion or agreement, for the purposes of the said proposed railway
branch railway, and works, and to levy tolls, rates, and duties, in'
respect of the use thereof, and to grant certain exemptions from such
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, and to enable the said last-mentioned
Company to purchase. or rent, and if need be to execute the said
railway, and to use, exercise, and enjoy such Powers, and to raise
capital for the purpose, or for the purpose of contributing towards
the establishment of, and becoming shareholders in, the said under-
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 part of
the said intended railway secondly hereinbefore described, and of the
whole or any part of so muelt of the said intended railway firstly
hereinbefore described, as will 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
the construction thereof, and for those purposes, or either of them, to
raise additional capital, and also to enable the said Great Western
Ralway Company, and the said Bristol 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 aforesaid 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 (late 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. 38 ; 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 same reign, cap. 27 ;
a
an Act of the sixth and seventh years of the reign ef his said late
Majesty King William the Fourth, cp. 77 ; an Act of the first and
second years of the reign of her said present Majesty Queen Victoria,
cap. 24 ; an Act of the fifth year of the same reign, cap. 28 : an Act
of the sixth year of the same reign, cap. 10; an Act of the seventh
Year of the same reign, cap. 3
• an Act of the eighth and ninth Sears
of the same reign, cap. 40 ; an Act of the eighth and ninth years 01
the same reign, cap. 188: an Act of theeighth and ninth years of the
same reign, cap. 191; and an Act of the ninth year of the same reign,
cap. 14 ; the " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Raiiway:Act, 1845,i.
and the" Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway (Amendment)n
Act, 1846;" an Act of the seventh And eighth years of the re.*