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Title: Ventilation Shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel - CBC01401

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Ventilation Shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel - CBC01401

Description

Grade II

Either the ventilation shaft to Castle Carr Tunnel 200 m W of Weavers Gate footpath.
Ventilation shaft for waterworks underground conduit, 1870s by John la Trobe Bateman, engineer. Large dressed stone plinth, rockfaced walls, ashlar cornice. Circular approximately 10 feet high with 4 openings with large ashlar blocks for jambs, lintel and sill. Cast iron grille. Good examples of stonemasons work on top of the moors in an isolated location, part of the system of tunnels linking Halifax with Widdop reservoir (q.v.)


NGR: SE 00864 29363
Historic England Listing No: 1227398
CMBC Ref: HR 263

Or: the ventilation shaft to Castle Carr Tunnel 400 m E of Weavers Gate footpath.
Historic England Listing No: 1227709
CMBC Ref: HR 264

Date

2021-08-11T12:28:42

Relation

Pennine Horizons Digital Archive

Identifier

CBC01401.tif

Citation

“Ventilation Shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel - CBC01401,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 23, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35326.

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