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| Seascale Station, Seascale | ||
| Seascale Station | ||
| site name:- | Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway | |
| locality:- | Seascale | |
| civil parish:- | Seascale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| coordinates:- | NY03700108 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0301 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY00 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened 1849. | |
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 BMV75.jpg (taken 13.10.2006)  BMV67.jpg (taken 13.10.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 78) |
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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. "Railway Station / Coal Depot" etc; apart from Scawfell Hotel and Scale Villa there seems to be nothing else here at all |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Seascales Station |
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| source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2NY00.jpg "Seascales Station" dot by railway item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "OLD WATER TOWER IN RAILWAY GOODS YARD / / / SEASCALE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76375 / NY0375801065" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "3-stage water tower in former railway goods yard. Late C19. For Furness Railway Co. Rock-faced stone with ashlar bands and dressings, conical slate roof. Top is corbelled out. 2-light single-chamfered mullioned window to 1st and 3rd stages. Entrance with shouldered lintel to south. Projecting stack to north has round shaft. Conical roof has finial. A prominent landmark near the seashore." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Linton 1852 item:- train |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Seascale Hotel, Seascale, Cumberland, drawn by R Shepherd, engraved
by W H Lizars, Edinburgh, published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and
Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852. click to enlargeLN1E08.jpg Tipped in opposite p.54 of A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. printed at bottom left, right, centre:- "R. Shepherd delt. / W. H. Lizars sc. / SEASCALE HOTEL" item:- Armitt Library : A1158.8 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BMV68.jpg View S. (taken 13.10.2006)  BMV69.jpg View N. (taken 13.10.2006)  BMV70.jpg Goods shed, now Seascale Sports Hall. (taken 13.10.2006)  BMV71.jpg Tower - associated with the railway? (taken 13.10.2006) |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Paley, Edward G |
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| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| date:- | 1877 |
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| date:- | 1877 |
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| Perhaps responsible for the weigh house and water tower? |
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