Merrygill Viaduct
MERRYGILL VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387274
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Merrygill Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- MERRYGILL VIADUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387274
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Merrygill Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRYGILL VIADUCT
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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.
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:
- MERRYGILL VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartley
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 78442 08370
Details
HARTLEY
NY 70 NE
156/11/10001
Merrygill Viaduct
II
Railway viaduct. 1861 for the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, engineer (Sir) Thomas Bouch, contractors Chambers and Hilton. Rock faced limestone rubble. Nine spans, 110m long and up to 24m high. Cornice, tall parapets. The South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway opened in 1863, by which time it was already a part of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The Stockton and Darlington Railway itself amalgamated with the North Eastern Railway in 1863. It was opened as single track line and was doubled in 1889. It was closed in 1965 when all the large metal viaducts were demolished leaving the four masonry ones. Ref: ed. Jack Simmons, Rail 150 The Stockton and Darlington Railway and what followed, Eyre Methuen, 1975, p.30.
Listing NGR: NY7844208370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Simmons, J, Rail 150 The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed, (1975), 30
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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