Sighting tower south of Bramhope

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Sighting tower south of Bramhope by David Spencer as part of the Geograph project.

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Sighting tower south of Bramhope

Image: © David Spencer Taken: 21 Aug 2005

This is a sighting tower, built so that the engineers could keep a true line during construction of the Bramhope Tunnel on the Leeds to Harrogate railway line, directly underneath this point. This field was also used as a navvie camp during construction. See http://www.bramhope.org/brtunnel.htm

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.877961
Longitude
-1.62552