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air shaft, Whitehaven (4)
Street:-   Castle Park
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NX97781777
1Km square:-   NX9717
10Km square:-   NX91
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CGO20.jpg (taken 15.9.2017)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"AIR SHAFT CAP TO FORMER RAILWAY TUNNEL AT NGR / / CASTLE PARK / WHITEHAVEN / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 429198 / NX9778617776"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Air shaft cap to ventilate the Whitehaven &Furness Junction Railway, opened 1852 and running beneath the grounds of Whitehaven Castle. Red brick in English bond with stone coping. Circular in plan. This shaft was the only one visible from the Lowther's Mansion (Whitehaven Castle); consequently it received iron railings (set on a stone plinth) to surround it, the uprights and main verticals with crocketed heads."

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