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| Dry Beck Viaduct, Hesket | ||
| Dry Beck Viaduct | ||
| site name:- | Settle and Carlisle Railway | |
| site name:- | Dry Beck (3) | |
| civil parish:- | Hesket (formerly Cumberland) | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway viaduct | |
| locality type:- | viaduct | |
| coordinates:- | NY50884789 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5047 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY54 | |
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 CCR06.jpg (taken 20.3.2015)  CCR07.jpg (taken 20.3.2015) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Drybeck Viaduct |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "DRYBECK VIADUCT / / / HESKET / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73867 / NY5088447881" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Railway viaduct. 1875 by J.S. Crossley, engineer for the Settle-Carlisle line of the Midland Railway. Rock-faced red sandstone masonry with brick soffits to the arches. Seven arches of 45' span on tall battered piers with imposts and continuous band at track level. Solid parapets. In unaltered condition and very attractively sited. This lies partly in Wetheral C.P." |
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| hearsay:- |
7 arches, 80 feet high, 139 yards long. |
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| Built 1871-74. |
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