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Artengill Viaduct, Dent
Artengill Viaduct
Arten Gill Viaduct
site name:-   Settle and Carlisle Railway
site name:-   Artengill Beck
locality:-   Arten Gill
locality:-   Dentdale
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway viaduct
locality type:-   viaduct
coordinates:-   SD77658580
coordinates:-   SD77598599
1Km square:-   SD7785
10Km square:-   SD78

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BPX10.jpg (taken 9.1.2009)  
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BRW02.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Artengill Viaduct
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ARTENGILL VIADUCT / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484249 / SD7761785903"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Railway viaduct carrying Settle to Carlisle railway line over Artengill Beck. c1869-75, for the Midland Railway Company; Chief Engineer John Crossley, resident engineer J.Underwood. Rock-faced sandstone in massive blocks, with brick soffits to the arches. Straight line on almost north-south axis. Eleven round-headed arches on battered rectangular piers, those to north and south of the 7th, 8th and 9th (which span the deepest part of the valley) broader than the others and with tapered pilasters; short cavetto-moulded imposts at the springing of the arches, rusticated voussoirs, a moulded string course and parapets with rounded coping. Matches Dent Head Viaduct (qv) approx. 1200m to south. A striking feature of the landscape."

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BRV99.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)  
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BRW01.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)  
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BRW03.jpg  The date, centre of the parapet:-
"1875" (taken 13.11.2009)  
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BYQ41.jpg (taken 25.6.2013)  
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BYQ42.jpg  EWS goods train.
(taken 25.6.2013)  
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BYQ43.jpg  Slender piers.
(taken 25.6.2013)  
hearsay:-  
 The foundations of the piers go down 50 feet to find bedrock.
11 arches, 117 feet high, 220 yards long.
Built 1871-75 using 'Dent Marble' limestone.
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