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Latitude: 53.6384 / 53°38'18"N
Longitude: -1.6152 / 1°36'54"W
OS Eastings: 425539
OS Northings: 415829
OS Grid: SE255158
Mapcode National: GBR KV5C.3H
Mapcode Global: WHCB4.5T34
Plus Code: 9C5WJ9QM+8W
Entry Name: Flockton Waggonway Tunnel and Entrance Portal Approximately Mid-Way Between Junctions of Hardcastle Lane and the New Hall Farm
Listing Date: 24 July 1969
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1135523
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342532
ID on this website: 101135523
Location: Flockton Green, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4
County: Wakefield
Civil Parish: Sitlington
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Middlestown St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SE21NE SITLINGTON NEW HALL APPROACH
(south side),
Middlestown.
6/39 Flockton Waggonway
24.7.69 Tunnel and entrance
Portal approx. mid-way
between junctions of
Hardcastle Lane and the
track to New Hall Farm.
II
Waggonway tunnel and entrance portal. 1772-5. The portal rebuilt c.1986.
Rubble flanking walls and vaulted tunnel. The tunnel extends northwards for
about 50 metres but is then blocked. It represents the remains of a wooden
waggonway from Flockton colliery to the canal staithes at Horbury Bridge.
Rails were used later and route alterations were made over the years. The
colliery closed during a strike in 1893 and never re-opened. A rare
survival.
R. C. N. Thornes. West Yorkshire "A Noble Scene of Industry" The Development
of the County 1500-1830, 1981.
J. Goodchild. Wakefield Canal Trail. 1975 (Wakefield EAHY Committee).
Listing NGR: SE2553915829
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