communicates- with Liverpool and Manchester; the distance from Birmingham to those places respectively, being 97¼ miles."
"The Grand Junction Railway also forms an important link in the great chain of railway communication from London to Lancaster, a distance of 237 miles; the whole of which, with the exception of 22 miles at the northern extremity, is expected to be completed in the course of next year."
In conformity with our plan, we shall give an account of each place lying east and west of the line, to which the directors in their circular have directed attention, and whenever we think an omission of importance has been made, we shall notice it.[1]
For old acquaintance sake, we shall bestow a few words on the extinct borough of
Newton, commonly designated by topographers, "Newton-in-Mackerfield;" it is a borough by proscription, and chapelry, in the parish of Winwick, and the hundred of West
Derby. It has a population of about 1,643, and the actual value of real property assessed in 1815, was £6,302. Its fairs are held Feb. 12, May 17, July 15, and every Monday fortnight for cattle and sheep, and on Aug. 12, for horses,
- ↑ If the reader is desirous of leaving for the present the description of the towns, to truce the road as the carriages proceed, he will notice that the portion of the book in which the Railroad is described is printed within rules, with the distances marked on each side; with this mark he can easily confine his attention to the Line, and what may be seen wear it. (See pages 29 and 36.)
