Hopesbrook ( Lea Line / Boxbush) (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Tuesday, September 08, 2009, 09:14 (5629 days ago) @ grunson

That makes more sense, up the Ross road from the Farmers Boy !

A single track line with small station / turntable would fit, as would the Toll house/gate.

Hopesbrook

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
367500 220900

entrance to "new" tunnel at Lea Line
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/244570

The section of the Ross road in the north-west was shifted again to the south to accommodate a railway in the 1850s, a tollhouse erected near Hopesbrook in the 1840s being altered to face the new road to its south.

The boarding school at Lea Line closed in the 1870s.

http://www.englandspastforeveryone.org.uk/resources/assets/L/Longhope_introduction_1928...

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