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Variant spellings of SVR station names

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Although the railways and Ordnance Survey helped to standardise the names and spelling of towns in Britain in the mid 19th century, many early maps and timetables show variations. Some of the stations on the Severn Valley and Tenbury braches were also renamed for various reasons.
==Bridgnorth==
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Perhaps the most common misspelling in modern times, 'Bridgenorth' appears on several early plans for the SVR. It also appeared in the title of two [[Unsuccessful proposals for railways in the Severn Valley#Proposals for railways connecting Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth| unsuccessful proposals for railways linking Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth]], the "Wolverhampton & Bridgenorth Railway" of 1860 and the "South Staffordshire & Central Wales Railway Dudley & Bridgenorth" of 1861.
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==Stourport==
==Arley==
The village is named Upper Arley, with some early maps naming it Over Arley.
 
==Highley==
Higley
==Hampton Loade==
1862, [[File:OS_Hampton_Loade_1883.jpg|thumb|300px|right|1883 OS map of HamptonLoade]]1866, [[Hampton Lode1876, Loade]] station is actually located in Hampton1877, Hampton Lode1887on the west bank of the [[River Severn]], with the main part of Hampton Loade1863, village being on the east bank. The village was also historically known as Hampton's Loade.<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17612/17612-h/17612-h.htm Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway, by J. Randall 1863]</ref>.
==Highley==The station was originally named '''Hampton''' as shown in the [[Timetable: Shrewsbury to Worcester 1862| opening timetable]]. However within a month it had adopted the name '''Hampton Loade''' which it has retained ever since.<ref>[[Bibliography | Marshall (1989), p101]]</ref> A station at Hampton in London opened in 1864<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_railway_station_(London) Hampton Railway Station on Wikipedia]</ref> and the name change may have been made to avoid potential confusion.Higley19th century OS maps include a number of other variant spellings. Maps surveyed in the 1880s still showed the station as "Hampton", with the hamlets on each bank being "Hempton" and "Hamptonload" as illustrated. The latter has also appeared as Hampton Lode (1876/1887).
==Coalport==
Coalport West
 
==Tenbury==
Tenbury Wells (Tenbury Branch)
 
==See also==
 
==References==
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