SOUTH PORTAL TO THE TAVISTOCK CANAL TUNNEL AT NGR 448 702

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105707
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: SOUTH PORTAL TO THE TAVISTOCK CANAL TUNNEL AT NGR 448 702
Statutory Address:: SOUTH PORTAL TO THE TAVISTOCK CANAL TUNNEL AT NGR 448 702

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105707
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: SOUTH PORTAL TO THE TAVISTOCK CANAL TUNNEL AT NGR 448 702
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH PORTAL TO THE TAVISTOCK CANAL TUNNEL AT NGR 448 702

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:: SOUTH PORTAL TO THE TAVISTOCK CANAL TUNNEL AT NGR 448 702

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Gulworthy
National Grid Reference:: SX 44895 70293

Details

TAVISTOCK HAMLETS SX 47 SW MORWELLHAM 5/8 South portal to the Tavistock Canal tunnel at NGR 448 702 - II South portal to the Tavistock Canal tunnel. Dated 1803. The Tavistock Canal was built between 1803 and 1817 by John Taylor. Coursed granite rubble with stone datestone. The Tavistock Canal connected the Tavy to the Tamar over a distance of 4½ miles. For nearly 2 miles it runs in a tunnel under Morwell Down; from the south portal it is connected to Morwellham by an incline plane with a drop of 237 feet. Round headed archway with voussoirs and keystone, datestone above. Flanking walls. (Sources: Booker, F.: Industrial Archaeology of the Tamar Valley. Hedges, C. :The Tavistock Canal. 1975)

Listing NGR: SX4489570293

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 94062
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Booker, F, Industrial Archaeology of the Tamar Valley, (1967)
Hedges, C , The Tavistock Canal, (1975)

Legal

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