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Latitude: 51.3834 / 51°23'0"N
Longitude: -2.4019 / 2°24'6"W
OS Eastings: 372129
OS Northings: 165008
OS Grid: ST721650
Mapcode National: GBR JZ.S4JY
Mapcode Global: VH96L.BH29
Plus Code: 9C3V9HMX+97
Entry Name: Twerton Tunnel: West Entrance (Adjoining Carr's Wood)
Listing Date: 11 August 1972
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395140
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510557
ID on this website: 101395140
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:
west 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 set forward abutments with crenellated copings, main parapet with saddle back coping, with weathered string carried across full width. Lower parts of walls flared out. Similar to East entrance (qv), but without flanking turret. Part of development of Great Western line between Bath and Bristol, opened to traffic 21st August 1840. Tunnel 111ft long and known as No.6 Tunnel by railways. Considerable retaining wall some 1120ft long and up to 49ft high connecting this tunnel with Twerton Wood Tunnel (qv). 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: ST7212965008
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