Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AMBERGATE

AMBERGATE, a station on the Midland railway, near the mouth of the Amber rivulet, 10½ miles N of Derby. Here are a post office under Derby, and extensive lime works. A branch railway, of 11½ miles, goes off hence north-north-westward to Rowley, and traverses one of the most grandly picturesque districts in the empire. See Nottingham and Grantham Railway.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Derbyshire AncC
Place: Ambergate

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