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| 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 | |
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 CGN01.jpg (taken 8.9.2017) |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- placename:- Fenton Embankment |
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| source data:- | Drawing, Fenton Embankment, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Fenton, Hayton, Cumberland,
by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835. click to enlargePR1010.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 |
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