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Latitude: 50.6488 / 50°38'55"N
Longitude: -2.0756 / 2°4'32"W
OS Eastings: 394748
OS Northings: 83242
OS Grid: SY947832
Mapcode National: GBR 33F.B1B
Mapcode Global: FRA 67JC.C5V
Plus Code: 9C2VJWXF+GP
Entry Name: Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
Listing Date: 7 April 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390910
English Heritage Legacy ID: 492497
ID on this website: 101390910
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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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CORFE CASTLE,
Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
II
Plateway tunnel portal, on disused line. Dated 1807. Coursed limestone with dressed limestone arch-ring with a keystone, inscribed; BF 1807. This is the south portal of the tunnel; the north portal was buried in the road widening of the A351 in 1965. The plateway was constructed by B. Fayle to transport clay from Norden to Middlebere Quay on Middlebere Lake. The trucks would have been horse drawn originally, but later in the C19 small narrow gauge tank engines were introduced. The line was in use until 1936.
A rare surviving example of a plateway tunnel portal.
SOURCE: St John Thomas, D. : A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol.1 The West Country; p.194.
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