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| Haweswater Aqueduct | ||
| civil parish:- | Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | aqueduct | |
| locality type:- | tunnel | |
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| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
| county:- | Lancashire | |
| locality:- | Manchester | |
| county:- | Greater Manchester | |
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 BQT37.jpg Bridge, pipe over Stockdale Beck. (taken 9.6.2009)  BQK20.jpg Ventilator on hillside above Murthwaite; you can hear water gurgling below. (taken 15.4.2009) |
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 BSD01.jpg Cast iron cover on the pipe bridge over Stockdale Beck:- "M C / W W" Manchester Corporation Water Works (taken 3.2.2010)  BSD02.jpg Cast iron cover on the pipe bridge over Stockdale Beck. (taken 3.2.2010)  BIL15.jpg Bridge, pipe over Stockdale Beck. (taken 26.2.2005)  BSB50.jpg View S at (taken 3.2.2010)  BSB51.jpg View N at (taken 3.2.2010)  BSB52.jpg Gate, (taken 3.2.2010)  BSB53.jpg Ventilator (taken 3.2.2010) |
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 BQT39.jpg Access manhole at Stockdale. (taken 9.6.2009)  BQT40.jpg Access manhole at Stockdale. (taken 9.6.2009)  BQT38.jpg Bridge, pipe over Stockdale Beck. (taken 9.6.2009)  BJK15.jpg Stream crossing the route of the Haweswater aqueduct, side of Ancrow Brow. The concrete channel is presumably to stop the stream eroding down to the iron pipe. (taken 2.5.2005) |
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 BYZ03.jpg Construction railway.  BYZ06.jpg Pipe tunnel above Stockdale. |
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 CDQ06.jpg Spoil heaps at Stockdale, 1940s? courtesy of Nial Barnes |
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| hearsay:- |
The aqueduct takes water from Hawes Water, through Westmorland and Lancashire, to
Manchester. The route is from the reservoir through a 4¾ mile tunnel to Stockdale,
Longsleddale, then by a cut and cover tunnel - with a ¾mile section of tunnelling
half way down the valley, to Garnett Bridge, Strickland Roger. From here the Sprint
Siphon connects to the existing aqueduct from Thirlmere reservoir. |
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| The tunnel and aqueduct were built by Francois Cementation Co, beginning about 1930
and was finished 1936. It first carried water 2 October 1941. There was a work camp
at Stockdale. |
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| The project was served by a 2 foot gauge railway and lots of tipper waggons. Three
diesel locos were used above ground, one of them made by Hudson Clarke and Co, named
Planet; the underground locos were battery powered, Progress and Pioneer. At the end
of work on the aqueduct the equipment was auctioned at Stockdale, 4 March 1936. |
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| references:- |
I have not looked for sources. |
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| Holmes, Peter: 2002: Haweswater Aqueduct and the Mardale Tunnel: Mine Explorer &Journal
of the Cumbria Amenity Ttrust Mining History Society: vol.5: pp.117-119 |
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