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The advantages of this railroad to the owners of property on its line are very considerable, independent of the facilities it affords for the transit of goods, minerals, and other produce, by means of its cotmection with the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, the Kington Railroad, and, through it, with the Leominster Canal, and the extended line of country to which it thereby transfers the produce carried along it.

HECK AND WENTBRIDGE RAILWAY.
7 George IV. Cap. 46, Royal Assent 5th May, 1826.

8 George IV. Cap. 20, Royal Assent 12th April, 1827.

THIS work commences at a place called Wentbridge, adjoining the turnpike-road from Doncaster to Ferrybridge; and, pursuing a circuitous course in a north-east direction, arrives at its termination in the basin communicating with that part of the Aire and Calder Navigation called the Knottingley and Goole Canal, in the township of Heck, after having completed a distance of seven miles and thirty-five chains.

The first proceeding in this work was under authority of an act, entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from Heckbridge, in the parish of Snaith, to Wentbridge, in the parish of Kirksmeaton, all in the West Riding of the county of York.

By this act it was determined that the subscribers, who were called "The Heck and Wentbridge Railway Company," should make and maintain a railway or tramroad from Far Fleet Close, at or near Heckbridge, in the parish of Snaith, and passing through the parishes of Womersley, Campsall, Kirksmeaton and Darrington, and through or into the hamlets or townships of Pollington, Heck, Whitley, Balne, Stubbs Walden, Stapleton, and Wentbridge, terminating in the great north road, at the last-mentioned place. They are also required to make a dock or basin at the communication of their railway with the canal from Knottingley to Goole, for loading and unloading vessels, together with a bridge for haling horses to pass over the cut joining such basin or dock with the canal. For these and other purposes of the act,