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Kempsey railway station (Worcestershire)

railway station in Kempsey, Worcestershire, England, UK, now closed

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ106390457 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kempsey railway station, also known as Pirton railway station, served the village of Kempsey, Worcestershire, England, from 1841 to 1844 on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.

History

The station was opened in November 1841 by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. The company also stated that Pirton station was here. It was one of many stations that only appeared in the timetable on 19 May 1842. The station closed on 4 November 1844.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kempsey railway station (Worcestershire)” is railway station in Kempsey, Worcestershire, England, UK, now closed. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kempsey, railway and station, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1841, 1844, 1842—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kempsey, railway and station is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Kempsey, Worcestershire, England, UK, now closed” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106390457. Authority coordinates are 52.121, -2.152. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1841, 1844 and 1842.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kempsey railway station (Worcestershire)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kempsey railway station (Worcestershire) primary sources, Kempsey railway station (Worcestershire) archive and Kempsey research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kempsey railway station (Worcestershire)”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kempsey railway station (Worcestershire)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.