Course of Old Tramway, Near Mill Farm
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Course of Old Tramway, Near Mill Farm
Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: 19 Jun 2007
Running along the edge of the field there is very little trace of the tramway now. It carried ore from the Ailesbury Ironstone Mines further up Scugdale down to the Cleveland and North Yorkshire Railway at Picton. Operations commenced in 1857 when the C&NYR opened and lasted thirty years.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.40867
Longitude
-1.260449