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| HER Number: | MCO54986 |
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| Name: | SPARNOCK - Post Medieval railway tunnel |
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Summary
Sparnick Tunnel on the Cornwall Railway Falmouth line.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded
Monument Type(s):
Full description
Sparnick Tunnel, on the Cornwall Railway Falmouth line, is 491 yards long. Work was commenced in spring 1853 by the contractor, Mr Samuel Garratt. He became insolvent in winter 1854, and work was suspended until 1862, when the tunnel was completed and opened in August 1863. There were two working shafts, which were backfilled when the tunnel was complete but which left dumps at surface. One of these has been mistakenly Scheduled as a barrow (JRS).
Woodfin, RJ, 1972, The Cornwall Railway (Bibliographic reference). SCO5068.
Sources / Further Reading
| --- | SCO5068 - Bibliographic reference: Woodfin, RJ. 1972. The Cornwall Railway. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Related records
| MCO54745 | Parent of: SPARNOCK - Post Medieval railway tunnel (Monument) |
| MCO54746 | Parent of: SPARNOCK - Post Medieval railway tunnel (Monument) |
| 165670 | Part of: CORNWALL RAILWAY - Post Medieval railway (Monument) |
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