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Jesty, and to Alter the Tolls and Charges Thereby Authorized To 4026 and tenth years of the reign of Her present Ma- Town, in Sheerness, at a place called Banks Town, in jesty, and to alter the tolls and charges thereby the parish of Minster in Sheppey, in the Isle of Shep- authorized to be taken: And also to amend and pey, in the county of Kent, at a messuage now or lately enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the occupied by John Eaton, which said branch railway several Acts relating to the Thames and Medway will pass from, in, through, or info the several parishes, Canal and the Gravesend and Rochester Railway townships, and extra-parochial or other places next and Canal, passed respectively in the thirty-ninth hereinafter mentioned, or some of them, that is to and fortieth, and forty-fourth, fiftieth, and fifty- say, Halstow the Lower, Upchurch, Iwade, East- eighth years of the reign of King George the Third, church, Minster in Sheppey, Queenborough, the and the fifth year of the reign of King George borough of Quinborowe, Miletown, Bluetown, the Fourth, and the eighth and ninth, and ninth Banks Town and Sheerness, in the said county of and tenth years of the reign of Her present Kent. Majesty. Also another branch railway or railways com- And it is further proposed by such intended Act mencing from and out of the said intended main to authorise the construction and maintenance, by line in the parish of Preston next Faversham, in the South-Eastern Railway Company, of the rail- the county of Kent, at or near a footpath leading way, branch railways, and diverging line, hereinafter from Macknade to Faversham, in a field now or mentioned, with all proper works and conveniences late in the occupation of Edward and John Blax- connected therewith, that is to say, a railway com- land, proceeding thence to or near to a certain gar- mencing from and out of the Gravesend and Ro- den now or late in the occupation of George Broad- chester Railway, (now forming part of the South - bridge, and thence by two lines diverging from the Eastern Railway,) in the easternmost of the two last named place, one terminating near the Swing tunnels on the said railway, about a furlong from Bridge, and the other at or near a place called the Strood end of the same tunnel, and in the parish Foreman's Hard, both on Faversham Creek, in the of Strood and county of Kent, and terminating by parish of Faversham, in the said county; and a junction with the railway known as the South- which said last mentioned branch railway or rail- Eastern Canterbury, Ramsgate and Margate Rail- ways will pass from, in, through, or into the several way, in the parish of Chilham, in the county of parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other Kent, at or near a certain occupation road called places next hereinafter mentioned, or some or one Drove Lane, leading out of the Canterbury and of them, that is to say, Preston next Faversham, Ashford turnpike road, near the Chilham station Faversham, Faversham-in-Liberty, and Faversham- on the said last mentioned railway; which said pro- out-Liberty, in the county of Kent. posed railway is intended to pass or be made from, And it is further proposed by such intended Act in through or into the several parishes, town- to enable the said South-Eastern Railway Company ships, and extra-parochial or other places next here- to construct and maintain a bridge over the Swale, inafter mentioned, or some of them, that is to at the Horse Reach, in the parishes of Iwade and say, Strood, Cliffe, Frindsbury, Hoo, Rochester, Minster, in the said county of Kent, either in con- Saint Margaret Rochester, Saint Nicholas Ro- nection with the said intended branch railway to chester, Saint Nicholas and Saint Clement in Ro-" Sheerness, or as a distinct bridge, together with a Chester, Chatham, Brompton, Gillingham, Grange road or approach to the said intended bridge, com- otherwise Grench, Grange Chapelry, Lidsing, mencing from the south side of the said bridge, in Rainham, Moor Street, Upchurch, Halstow the a piece of jnarsh land, in the said parish of Iwade, Lower, Iwade, Bobbing, Milton next Sittingbourne, now or late in the occupation of James Fullager, Borden, Hartlip, -Sittingbourne, Tunstall, Tonge, passing through the same parish, and terminating BapchUd, Rodmersham, Lynsted, Murston, New- in the same parish by a junction with the road lead- ington next Sittingbourne, Teynham, Buckland, ing from Iwade to the King's Ferry, near a pasture Stone near Faversham, Luddenham, Ore, Norton, field now or late in the occupation of David Mor- Davington, Ospringe, Faversham, Favershtam-in- rison ; and together also with a road or approach to Liberty, Faversham-out-Liberty, Goodnestone next the said intended bridge, commencing from the Faversham, Preston-next-Faversham, Boughton- north side of the said bridge, in-a pasture field in under-Blean, Boughton, Dunkirk, Selling, Chart- the said parish of Minster, now or late in the oc- ham, Baddlesmere, Sheldwick, and Chilham, in the cupation of Samuel Creed Fairman, passing through county of Kent; together with a line diverging the parishes, townships, or extra-parochial, places from the said intended main line in the said parish of Minster, Queenborough, and Quinborowe, or of Chilham, near Bagham Cross, passing through some or one of them, and terminating in the parish the said parish of Chilham, and terminating by a of Queenborough, by a junction with the public junction with the said South-Eastern Canterbury, road leading from Queenborough to Sheerness, near Ramsgate and Margate Railway, in the said parish the old castle at Queenborough, and to levy tolls of Chilham, near French Mill. in respect of all persons, cattle, horses ands carriages Also a branch railway commencing from and out using the said bridge, and to vary or extinguish all of the said intended main line,' in the parish of existing rights and privileges connected with the Halstow the Lower, in the county of Kent, in a Ferry called the King's Ferry over the said Swale, field called the Twelve Acres Pasture, now or late and to enable the ferry warden and jury of the Isle in the occupation of Henry Hudson, near to the of Sheppey for the time being, to transfer to the homestead of Great Barksole, and terminating at or said company all their estate, right and interest in near the south-west side of the High Street, Mile the said ferry, or in any lands and hereditaments.
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