Document Summary

A petition from the promoters of the proposed Stockton and Darlington railway.

This document was published on 25th March 1819 by Her Majesty's Government.

It was written by Her Majesty's Government.

The original document format was Scanned Images, and comprised 2 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from Victorian Times Project and is in our Consultations & petitions collection. It was added to the Archive on 1st December 2008.

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