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Latitude: 53.2327 / 53°13'57"N
Longitude: -2.5387 / 2°32'19"W
OS Eastings: 364140
OS Northings: 370766
OS Grid: SJ641707
Mapcode National: GBR 7S.07W4
Mapcode Global: WH99J.Z08K
Plus Code: 9C5V6FM6+3G
Entry Name: Cattle Tunnel 170 Metres North West of Vale Royal Railway Viaduct
Listing Date: 18 July 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1228362
English Heritage Legacy ID: 402981
ID on this website: 101228362
Location: Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CW8
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Civil Parish: Hartford
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Hartford St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Tunnel Railway bridge
HARTFORD C.P.
SJ 67 SW
6410 7081
4/34 Cattle tunnel 170m
north-west of Vale Royal
- Railway Viaduct
- II
Cattle tunnel through embankment to viaduct: 1837 by George Stephenson
and Joseph Locke for Lord Delamere. English garden wall bond blue
brick. Semi-circular arched entrance (of 2½ bricks thickness), c.3m
wide, opens into a barrel vaulted tunnel running for 40m through the
embankment. Large stone keyblock at either end has Delamere arms
carved on it. Flat stone coping on low parapet and on revetment walls
running down to the ground.
Henrietta Cholmondeley's notebook (Cheshire Record Office
DBC/2309/1/11) records the visit of George Stephenson to her father,
Lord Delamere, in 1837. This tunnel may have been built as a
concession for putting the railway through, as the viaduct only
allowed room for the carriage drive.
Listing NGR: SJ6414070766
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