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| Hincaster Tunnel, Lancaster Canal | ||
| Hincaster Tunnel | ||
| site name:- | Lancaster Canal | |
| civil parish:- | Hincaster (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | canal tunnel | |
| coordinates:- | SD51268512 (east portal) | |
| coordinates:- | SD50928508 (west portal) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5185 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5085 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD58 | |
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 BLU89.jpg West portal. (taken 9.4.2006)  BLU90.jpg West portal. (taken 9.4.2006) |
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| 378 yards long, faced with limestone, lined with 4 million locally made bricks. It
was opened 18 June 1819, though said to have been finished Christmas Day 1817. The
tunnel has no towpath and boats were legged, or 'clogged' through by the bargemen
pushing on the tunnel roof, horses taken over the hill by the Horsepath. |
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| This tunnel took the canal route closer to the gunpowder works at Sedgwick. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 8) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Tunnel" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784. Ws02SD58.jpg "Tunnel" The tunnel is not drawn differently from the rest of the canal. item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "EAST PORTAL TO HINCASTER TUNNEL AND ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE OVER SUNKEN HORSE PATH / / WELL HEADS LANE / HINCASTER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76442 / SD5146586062" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Formerly listed as two items" "Portal to canal tunnel and accommodation bridge over sunken horse path. Completed Christmas day 1817. By John Fletcher, engineer. Tooled, dressed limestone with limestone string and coping and rounded fender course. Opening to canal tunnel has horseshoe arch with rusticated voussoirs and keystone flanked by tapering pilasters. Blank panel above probably intended for inscription. Accommodation bridge has horseshoe opening with rusticated voussoirs and keystone. Canal now dry." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WEST PORTAL TO HINCASTER TUNNEL / / WELL HEADS LANE / HINCASTER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76445 / SD5092285084" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Portal to canal tunnel. Completed Christmas day 1817. By John Fletcher, engineer. Tooled, dressed limestone with limestone string and coping and rounded fender course. Horseshoe arch with rusticated voussoirs and keystone flanked by tapering pilasters. Blank panel above probably intended for inscription. Canal now dry." |
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 BLU95.jpg East portal. (taken 9.4.2006) |
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