Cattle Tunnel 170 Metres North West Of Vale Royal Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1986. Cattle tunnel. 1 related planning application.
Cattle Tunnel 170 Metres North West Of Vale Royal Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- salt-casement-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1986
- Type
- Cattle tunnel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HARTFORD C.P. SJ 67 SW 6410 7081 4/34 Cattle tunnel 170m north-west of Vale Royal - Railway Viaduct
- II
Cattle tunnel through embankment to viaduct: 1837 by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke for Lord Delamere. English garden wall bond blue brick. Semi-circular arched entrance (of 2½ bricks thickness), c.3m wide, opens into a barrel vaulted tunnel running for 40m through the embankment. Large stone keyblock at either end has Delamere arms carved on it. Flat stone coping on low parapet and on revetment walls running down to the ground. Henrietta Cholmondeley's notebook (Cheshire Record Office DBC/2309/1/11) records the visit of George Stephenson to her father, Lord Delamere, in 1837. This tunnel may have been built as a concession for putting the railway through, as the viaduct only allowed room for the carriage drive.
Listing NGR: SJ6414070766
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