FLOCKTON WAGGONWAY TUNNEL AND ENTRANCE PORTAL APPROXIMATELY MID-WAY BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF HARDCASTLE LANE AND THE NEW HALL FARM

FLOCKTON WAGGONWAY TUNNEL AND ENTRANCE PORTAL APPROXIMATELY MID-WAY BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF HARDCASTLE LANE AND THE NEW HALL FARM, NEW HALL APPROACH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135523
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1969
List Entry Name:: FLOCKTON WAGGONWAY TUNNEL AND ENTRANCE PORTAL APPROXIMATELY MID-WAY BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF HARDCASTLE LANE AND THE NEW HALL FARM
Statutory Address:: FLOCKTON WAGGONWAY TUNNEL AND ENTRANCE PORTAL APPROXIMATELY MID-WAY BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF HARDCASTLE LANE AND THE NEW HALL FARM, NEW HALL APPROACH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135523
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1969
List Entry Name:: FLOCKTON WAGGONWAY TUNNEL AND ENTRANCE PORTAL APPROXIMATELY MID-WAY BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF HARDCASTLE LANE AND THE NEW HALL FARM
Statutory Address 1:: FLOCKTON WAGGONWAY TUNNEL AND ENTRANCE PORTAL APPROXIMATELY MID-WAY BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF HARDCASTLE LANE AND THE NEW HALL FARM, NEW HALL APPROACH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FLOCKTON WAGGONWAY TUNNEL AND ENTRANCE PORTAL APPROXIMATELY MID-WAY BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF HARDCASTLE LANE AND THE NEW HALL FARM, NEW HALL APPROACH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Sitlington
National Grid Reference:: SE 25539 15829

Details

SE21NE SITLINGTON NEW HALL APPROACH (south side), Middlestown.

6/39 Flockton Waggonway 24.7.69 Tunnel and entrance Portal approx. mid-way between junctions of Hardcastle Lane and the track to New Hall Farm.

II

Waggonway tunnel and entrance portal. 1772-5. The portal rebuilt c.1986. Rubble flanking walls and vaulted tunnel. The tunnel extends northwards for about 50 metres but is then blocked. It represents the remains of a wooden waggonway from Flockton colliery to the canal staithes at Horbury Bridge. Rails were used later and route alterations were made over the years. The colliery closed during a strike in 1893 and never re-opened. A rare survival. R. C. N. Thornes. West Yorkshire "A Noble Scene of Industry" The Development of the County 1500-1830, 1981. J. Goodchild. Wakefield Canal Trail. 1975 (Wakefield EAHY Committee).

Listing NGR: SE2553915829

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 342532
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Goodchild, J, Wakefield Canal Trail, (1975)
Thornes, R C N , West Yorkshire: A Noble Scene of Industry. The Development of the County 1500-1830, (1981)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.