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OTLEY, West Riding

Navvies' Monument                                           SE 201 453

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The monument in Otley churchyard is a memorial to the 23 men who were killed making a two mile long railway tunnel under Bramhope Moor between 1845 and 1849. The 6 feet high monument is a replica model of the Gothic entrance to the tunnel at Bramhope.



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