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| canal lock, Port Carlisle (2) | ||
| site name:- | Carlisle Canal | |
| locality:- | Port Carlisle | |
| civil parish:- | Bowness (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | canal lock | |
| locality type:- | wharf | |
| coordinates:- | NY24146224 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2462 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY26 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 BYW92.jpg (taken 27.7.2013)  BYW93.jpg (taken 27.7.2013) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SEA LOCK AND WHARF / / / BOWNESS / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71919 / NY2413462237" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Sea lock and wharf. 1819-1823 for the Carlisle Canal. Red sandstone ashlar with V-joints, large granite blocks on seaward corner. Standard lock design with recesses for 2 pairs of lock gates, now missing, to take vessels of up to 100 tons: gave access from harbours to canal basin. Wall of lock to east continues at right angles to form a wharf. In use until 1853 when the canal was drained and part of the bed of the canal was used for the Port Carlisle Railway." |
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 BYW94.jpg (taken 27.7.2013)  BUH81.jpg Remains of the canal lockgate hinge. (taken 3.4.2011)  BYW95.jpg Remains of the canal lockgate hinge. (taken 27.7.2013)  BMB14.jpg (taken 5.5.2006) |
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