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Latitude: 50.6488 / 50°38'55"N
Longitude: -2.0756 / 2°4'32"W
OS Eastings: 394750
OS Northings: 83240
OS Grid: SY947832
Mapcode National: GBR 33F.B1B
Mapcode Global: FRA 67JC.C5W
Plus Code: 9C2VJWXF+GQ
Entry Name: Norden Tunnel 1
Listing Date: 4 February 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376767
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469051
ID on this website: 101376767
Location: Norden, Dorset, BH20
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Corfe Castle
Built-Up Area: Corfe Castle
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Corfe Castle St Edward the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Building
SY 98 SW
1071/2/10005
CORFE CASTLE
NORDEN
Norden Tunnel (1)
GV
II
Plateway tunnel. Dated 1807. Coursed stone rubble with dressed stone arch rings. Round arch tunnel, about 23 metres long, the keystone of the west portal inscribed: B.F. 1807. The tunnel was built for Benjamin Fayle, a London based shipping agent and insurance broker, who leased the Norden clay pits from William Morton Pitt in 1804. By 1806 he had constructed a plateway from the clay pits to Middlebere Quay, on Poole Harbour. Clay was taken from the pits to the quay by horse drawn train. The plateway remained in use as a horse drawn tramway until about 1905, when a new line was built. Middlebere Plateway was one of the earliest railways in southern England. The tunnel now carries a watercourse.
SOURCE: Wilmott, M. Unpublished research based on documentary records in Dorset Records Office and Wedgwood Archive, Keele.
Listing NGR: SY9475083240
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