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Description: Ventilation shaft for Castle Carr Tunnel 200 metres west of Weavers Gate Footpath

Address: Vent. Shaft 200m West Weavers Gate, Castle Carr Wadsworth Moor Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Wadsworth Moor Dimmin Dale

Full description:
Ventilation shaft for waterworks underground conduit by John La Trobe Bateman, engineer. Large dressed stone plinth, rockfaced walls, ashlar cornice. Circular, approximately 10 feet high with 4 openings with large ashlar blocks for jambs, lintel and sill. Cast iron grille. Good examples of stone masons work on top of the moors in an isolated location, part of the system of tunnels linking Halifax with Widdop reservoir (q.v.).