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Latitude: 50.6485 / 50°38'54"N
Longitude: -2.0753 / 2°4'31"W
OS Eastings: 394769
OS Northings: 83209
OS Grid: SY947832
Mapcode National: GBR 33F.B3M
Mapcode Global: FRA 67JC.C98
Plus Code: 9C2VJWXF+CV
Entry Name: Norden Tunnel 2
Listing Date: 4 February 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376768
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469052
ID on this website: 101376768
Location: Norden, Dorset, BH20
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Corfe Castle
Built-Up Area: Corfe Castle
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Corfe Castle St Edward the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
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SY 98 SW
1071/2/10006
CORFE CASTLE
NORDEN
Norden Tunnel (2)
GV
II
Plateway tunnel. Circa 1807; 1848 plaque, date of partial rebuilding. Coursed stone rubble with dressed stone arch rings. Round arch tunnel, about 23 metres long. The tunnel was built for Benjamin Fayle, a London based shipping agent and insurance broker, who leased the Norden clay pits from William Morton Pitt in 1804. By 1806 he had constructed a plateway from the clay pits to Middlebere Quay, on Poole Harbour. Clay was taken from the pits to the quay by horse drawn train. The tunnel became disused in 1845, and was rebuilt in 1848. The plateway remained in use as a horse drawn railway until about 1905, when a new line was built. Middlebere Plateway was one of the earliest railways in southern England. The tunnel now carries a watercourse. SOURCE: Wilmott, M. Unpublished research, based on documentary records in Dorset record Office and Wedgdood Archive, Keele.
Listing NGR: SY9476983209
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