Haytor Granite Tramway, Ilsington, Devon
Architect/Designer | Templer, George (1781-1843) |
Artist/Photographer | Galwey, Reginald Hugo de Burgh (1917-1971) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Ilsington |
Subject Date | 1820 |
Image Date | 1954 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | AP152/59A |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Granite ; Landscape ; Railway architecture |
NOTES; Constructed by George Templer of Stover House near Bovey Tracey, this is the earliest railway in Devon. The line was laid along the contour and linked up the Haytor and Holwell quarries to the terminus of the Stover canal at Ventiford Wharf on the Teignmouth Estuary.
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