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Latitude: 51.3832 / 51°22'59"N
Longitude: -2.4014 / 2°24'5"W
OS Eastings: 372160
OS Northings: 164985
OS Grid: ST721649
Mapcode National: GBR JZ.S4N9
Mapcode Global: VH96L.BHBG
Plus Code: 9C3V9HMX+7C
Entry Name: Twerton Tunnel: East Entrance (Adjoining Carr's Wood)
Listing Date: 11 August 1972
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395139
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510556
ID on this website: 101395139
Location: Twerton, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Architectural structure Tunnel portal
LOWER BRISTOL ROAD
(South side)
Twerton Tunnel:
east Entrance
(adjoining Carr's
Wood) (Formerly
Listed as: LOWER
BRISTOL ROAD,
Twerton Entrances
to Twerton Tunnel
(adjoining Carr's Wood))
11/08/72
II*
Railway tunnel entrance. c1840, by IK Brunel. Lias walling with ashlar dressings. Tudor style, single four-centred arch with dressed flush face, between octagonal turrets, that to right (north) complete turret, with cross arrow-loop, and with crenellated top, with short run of supporting wall to right, at angle to track alignment. To left turret projects forward, but carried across as wall parallel with tunnel front, rather than returned as turret, also crenellated. Main horizontal parapet saddle-back coped, and weathered string below carried across full width of frontage. Lower parts of walls are flared out. On south side of entrance run of retaining wall, extending approx 60m, in course stonework, with engineering brick capping, with long section raised to flat gable, all on stepped corbel-table, wall flared out in lower half. At east end wall stopped to large plain square pier with flat capping on triple frieze-band. Part of Great Western line development between Bath and Bristol, opened to traffic 21st August 1840. Tunnel 111 feet long and known as No.6 Tunnel by railways. SOURCES: (Civil Engineering Heritage: Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England: London: 1986-: 12 AVON; Wishaw F: Railways of Great Britain and Ireland (1842): Newton Abbot: 1969-: 149).
Listing NGR: ST7216064985
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