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to seek supplementary incomes including an agricultural machinist (Blacksmiths Arms), carrier (Crown Inn), wheelwright (Fox Inn), purveyor of wines and spirits (Red Lion), farmer (White Hart) and a blacksmith (White Horse). The coming of the railway dented
Wetherby's importance as a coaching town greatly. What's more, the town wasn't to get the crucial rail link to Leeds until 1876.
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have otherwise and employed fewer people; in the 1851 census a porter was listed while by 1871 a porter and station master were both listed. Comparably the station on Linton Road in its heyday had around seven staff. To compensate for the distance from the town by the 1850s every train arriving in
Wetherby was met by a coach from the Angel.
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The introduction of the rail service further eroded the towns main coaching inns (the Swan and Talbot and the Angel) as local transport centres. Despite this the number of inns in the town remained almost unchanged from sixteen in 1837 to fifteen by 1861. Despite this, many innkeepers were forced
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The Church Fenton-Tadcaster-Wetherby-Spofforth section of the line opened on 10 August 1847, with the final stretch to
Harrogate opening on 20 July 1848. The station which was located on York Road was somewhat to the North East of the town at the time and consequently saw less usage than it might
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Wetherby economic harm as it took much traffic off the Great North Road; the 1839 toll income from the
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Wetherby : the history of a
Yorkshire market town
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75:Coordinates
992:Categories
915:Thorp Arch
870:Hunsingore
850:Collingham
835:Boston Spa
406:References
396:Unwin 1987
379:Unwin 1987
364:Unwin 1987
352:Unwin 1987
305:References
289:-Wetherby-
129:2 through,
84:53°55′58″N
938:Seb Hines
905:Spofforth
890:Scarcroft
855:Cowthorpe
702:Goldenfry
653:Education
582:Hallfield
448:Spofforth
264:in 1964.
189:Key dates
169:1854–1923
126:Platforms
87:1°22′52″W
1003:Wetherby
920:Tockwith
895:Shadwell
865:Harewood
845:Clifford
820:Aberford
695:Industry
551:Tempo FM
528:Wetherby
236:Wetherby
119:SE406487
63:Wetherby
59:Location
34:Wetherby
910:Thorner
840:Bramham
825:Bardsey
669:History
544:Culture
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337:11 July
268:History
158:to 1854
147:History
142:Disused
70:England
930:People
880:Linton
577:Ainsty
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139:Status
792:Sport
758:(Con)
752:(Lab)
746:(Con)
570:Areas
310:Notes
418:ISBN
339:2014
210:1964
202:1902
194:1847
238:in
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