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Chesterford Station, 1845. Railway station at Great Chesterford in Essex, one of the stops on the newly opened line from London to Cambridge and Ely. 'We next come to Chesterford, a small village, in which is the celebrated inn kept by Mr. Edwards, well known, and long frequented, by the aristocratic visitors to Newmarket Races, the turnpike-road to which here branches off to the right of the line, which passes over the old London road'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.