Norden Tunnel 1
NORDEN TUNNEL 1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376767
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Norden Tunnel 1
- Statutory Address:
- NORDEN TUNNEL 1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376767
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Norden Tunnel 1
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORDEN TUNNEL 1
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NORDEN TUNNEL 1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY9475083240
Details
SY 98 SW
1071/2/10005
CORFE CASTLE
NORDEN
Norden Tunnel (1)
GV
II
Plateway tunnel. Dated 1807. Coursed stone rubble with dressed stone arch rings. Round arch tunnel, about 23 metres long, the keystone of the west portal inscribed: B.F. 1807. 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 plateway remained in use as a horse drawn tramway 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SOURCE: Wilmott, M. Unpublished research based on documentary records in Dorset Records Office and Wedgwood Archive, Keele.
Listing NGR: SY9475083240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469051
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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