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Level	Item
Finding No	DDX1000
Extent	1 item
Title	Note book on Heck Bridge and Wentbridge Railway by G Boyes
Date	c.1970-c.1973
Description	Note book on the history of the Heck Bridge and Wentbridge Railway, which ran through Kirk Smeaton and Little Smeaton across the borders of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Note book contains the following: annotated Ordnance Survey map showing proposed schemes and actual route; notes on the Womersley-Trumfleet Railway scheme 1821; notes on the Womersley-Barmby upon Dun Railway scheme 1822-1825; notes on the Heck Bridge and Wentbridge Railway scheme 1826-1841 with notes on the Act, extracts from letters in the Sheffield City Libraries [now East Riding of Yorkshire Archives DDCL/647, 652, 653]; notes from minutes of Aire and Calder Navigation and miscellaneous contemporary references. Also with a series of photographs of the route of the dismantled line taken May 1970 and a series of annotated parliamentary deposited plans showing the route of the line.
CustodialHistory	Donated by G Boyes to complement relevant papers held in the East Riding Archives as part of the records of Clark, solicitors of Snaith. See DDCL/637-653.
Related Material	Other papers relating to the Heck Bridge and Wentbridge Railway, including documents transcribed for these notes, are held as part of the records of Clark, solicitors of Snaith, under the references DDCL/637-653.
AccessStatus	Open
PlaceCode	NA5435
PlaceCode	NA555
Subject	RAILWAYS
	TRANSPORT
	NAVIGATION SCHEMES

Places

Code	Set
NA5435	HECK/SNAITH/HECK/YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING
NA555	KIRK SMEATON/KIRK SMEATON/YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING