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Hughscrag Viaduct, Yanwath etc
Hughscrag Viaduct
Lowther Viaduct
site name:-   Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
site name:-   Lowther, River
civil parish:-   Yanwath and Eamont Bridge (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Clifton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-  
coordinates:-   NY52552704
1Km square:-   NY5227
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
BUN64.jpg (taken 13.5.2011)  
photograph
BUN65.jpg  Coat of arms, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.
(taken 13.5.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 3) 
placename:-  Hughscrag Viaduct
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.
"Hughscrag Viaduct / Lancaster and Carlisle Railway / Lowther, River"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Clifton Viaduct
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CLIFTON VIADUCT / / / CLIFTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74221 / NY5244827054"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Railway viaduct. 1846 by John Locke for the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway. Quarry- faced red sandstone ashlar. High viaduct of 5 segmental arches with solid parapet. Was called Clifton Viaduct when built. Illustrated in John Steel, Guide to the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway, 1847, as one of the engineering feats on the line. This viaduct lies partly in Yanwath &Eamont Bridge C.P."

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