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The main line was 8 miles 63 + 1 ⁄ 2 chains (14.15 km) long, running from Southwold to Halesworth, and two branches were also authorised. A 0.48-mile (0.77 km) branch at Halesworth linked up with the Blyth Navigation , and there was a link to Blackshore Quay, between Southwold and Walberswick , which was to be 0.25 miles (0.40 km) long.
Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in 2008 district boundaries. The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) is a metropolitan region centered in Ghana's capital Accra.With around five million inhabitants, the metropolitan area is one of the 90 largest agglomerations in the world. [1]
Holton Pit is a 1.6-hectare (4.0-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Halesworth in Suffolk. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]This was thought to be the only site known to show the sequence of the early Pleistocene Westleton Beds overlain by "quarttzose gravels" deposited by the proto-Thames river as the Kesgrave Sands & Gravels.
The Blyth Navigation canal was opened in 1761 running 7 miles (11 km) from Halesworth to the Blyth estuary, leading to the canalisation of the river east of Halesworth. It was insolvent by 1884, partly due to attempts to reclaim saltings at Blythburgh, which resulted in the estuary silting up and partly due to the opening of the Southwold Railway in 1879.
Nautical chart of Cape Three Points (1869) Cape Three Points is located between the coastal village of Akwidaa and town of Princes Town, Ghana.Cape Three Points is known as the "land nearest nowhere" because it is the land nearest to a location in the sea known as Null Island, which is at 0 latitude and 0 longitude (the distance is about 570 km).
The Tema-Mpakadan Railway Line is a 96.7 km standard gauge railroad constructed from the Tema to Mpakadan to facilitate the movement of goods along the Eastern corridor of Ghana. [1] The line is part of the 1000 km Ghana-Burkina Faso Interconnectivity Project which will connect Ouagadougou to the Port in Tema. [2] [3]
Okere District is one of the thirty-three districts in Eastern Region, Ghana.Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Akuapim North District in 1988, which was created from the former Akuapim District Council; until it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 15 March 2012 to become Akuapim North Municipal District.
The Diamond Cement Ghana Limited factory is located at Aflao. [7] In early 2014, a 2.5 km rail siding was completed to connect the cement works to the port of Lomé. [8] This siding crosses the border from Togo to Ghana and is of the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge. The total average annually volume of trade that goes through the border ...