Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 2004. Tunnel portal.
Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
- WRENN ID
- cold-jade-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 2004
- Type
- Tunnel portal
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/05/2018
1071/0/10018 07-APR-04
CORFE CASTLE, Middlebere Tramway Tunnel Portal
II
Plateway tunnel portal, on disused line. Dated 1807. Coursed limestone with dressed limestone arch-ring with a keystone, inscribed; BF 1807. This is the south portal of the tunnel; the north portal was buried in the road widening of the A351 in 1965. The plateway was constructed by B. Fayle to transport clay from Norden to Middlebere Quay on Middlebere Lake. The trucks would have been horse drawn originally, but later in the C19 small narrow gauge tank engines were introduced. The line was in use until 1936. A rare surviving example of a plateway tunnel portal. SOURCE: St John Thomas, D. : A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol.1 The West Country; p.194.
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