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The Ribblehead Viaduct in North Yorkshire, is regarded as the most impressive structure on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. It dates from the 1870s when hundreds of railway builders ("navvies") lost their lives building the line, from a combination of accidents, fights, and smallpox outbreaks. In particular, building the Ribblehead (then Batty Moss) viaduct, with its 24 massive stone arches 104 feet above the moor, caused such loss of life that the railway paid for an expansion of the local churchyard at Chapel-le-Dale. There is a large brass plaque in the Church of St Leonard to commemorate the losses.