Description

GROSMONT NORTH YORK MOORS
NZ 80 NW
RAILWAY
3/138 Pedestrian Subway
approximately one
hundred and ten
metres long
GV II*
Tramway tunnel, now pedestrian subway. c.1834. By George Stephenson for the Whitby and
Pickering Railway Company. Bordered tooled sandstone. North entrance:
battered retaining wall contains single round-arched entrance between
tapering cylindrical turrets on tall chamfered bases. Machicolated cornice
with castellated parapet runs above arch between turrets which have flat
circular caps. Retaining wall to east curves against hillside anti
terminates in low cylindrical pier with machicolated flat cap. Wall west
of arch dies into hillside. South entrance: repeats north entrance without
castellated parapet above arch. The subway was originally the horse
tramway tunnel on the Whitby to Pickering railway line and became obsolete
c.1847 when superseded by a steam tunnel (q.v.) built alongside by the York
and North Midland Railway Company.

Listing NGR: NZ8282205096

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540894

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)