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| Dent Head Viaduct, Dent | ||
| Dent Head Viaduct | ||
| site name:- | Settle and Carlisle Railway | |
| site name:- | Fell End Gill | |
| locality:- | Dentdale | |
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway viaduct | |
| locality type:- | viaduct | |
| coordinates:- | SD77768433 | |
| coordinates:- | SD77798450 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7784 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Dent Head Viaduct |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "DENT HEAD VIADUCT / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484279 / SD7778084400" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Railway viaduct carrying Settle to Carlisle railway line over Fell End Gill. c1869-75, for the Midland Railway Company, Chief Engineer John Crossley, resident engineer J.Underwood. Rock-faced sandstone in massive blocks, mostly coursed but some snecked, with brick soffits to the arches. Slightly curved line on north-south axis. Ten tall round-headed arches on battered rectangular piers, that in the centre broader than the others and with a broad tapered pilaster; short cavetto-moulded imposts at the springing of the arches, rusticated voussoirs (now with 3 tie-plates to each arch), a moulded string course, and parapets with rounded coping. Forms a very striking feature at the head of Dentdale, and an interesting contrast with the Pack Saddle Bridge approx. 10m east (qv)." |
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 BRW10.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)  BRW11.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)  BRW12.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)  BRW14.jpg The date on the parapet:- "1875" (taken 13.11.2009) |
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| hearsay:- |
10 arches, 100 feet high, 199 yards long. |
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| Built 1870-75. |
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