Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Act 1870
WHEREAS the making and maintaining of railways from the London and South-western Railway near the town of Barnstaple in the county of Devon to the town of Ilfracombe in that county would be of public and local advantage: And whereas the several persons herein-after in this Act named, with others, are willing at their own expense to carry the undertaking into execution on being incorporated into a Company for the purpose: And whereas it is expedient that the Company incorporated by this Act sh...