button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Fenton Embankment, Fenton
Fenton Embankment
site name:-   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Fenton
civil parish:-   Hayton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway embankment
coordinates:-   NY50465593 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY5055
10Km square:-   NY45
SummaryText:-   Uncertain location


photograph
CGN01.jpg (taken 8.9.2017)  

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Fenton Embankment
source data:-   Drawing, Fenton Embankment, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Fenton, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
image  click to enlarge
PR1010.jpg
Summertime; in centre foreground beside a long embankment along which the tracks have been laid a group of construction workers chisel at blocks of masonry, one of which is numbered 24. To either side lies wooded countryside with distant hills beyond. 
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company. 
numbered & inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom left:-  "No 13 Fenton Embankment JWC 1835"
at centre:-  "annotation regarding detail"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.11
Image © Tullie House Museum

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.