Lunds, North Yorkshire

Lunds is a hamlet in North Yorkshire, England, near to the watershed of the Eden and Ure rivers. It is on the border between Cumbria and North Yorkshire, and was at one time allocated to the West Riding, but has been traditionally treated as being in the North Riding.

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Lunds Church

Lunds Church is a redundant Anglican church in the hamlet of Lunds, North Yorkshire, in England. Lunds lies in a remote location in Upper Wensleydale. In the early 18th century, it lay in the parish of St Oswald's Church, Askrigg, but was more than 12 miles away from the parish church. A chapel of ease was constructed for the local residents, and was recorded in 1718. The current building dates from the mid 18th century. It was the smallest church in the Diocese of Ripon, with a capacity of 60 worshippers. It closed in 1981 and its condition deteriorated, though it remained in church ownership. In 2011, it was used for scenes in the film Wuthering Heights. Restoration work started in 2023. It has been grade II listed since 1969. The church is built of stone and was formerly rendered. It has a stone slate roof. It has a single storey and three bays; it is rectangular, measuring about 24 feet (7.3 m) by 14 feet (4.3 m). On the front is a doorway and a round-arched casement window. In the right return is a round-arched fixed window, and on the left gable is a bellcote. Inside there are the original 18th-century benches. The restoration work plans to replace the door and windows, reinstate an inscription above the east window reading "God is Love", and reinstate the tiled flooring and altar rail dating from about 1800. The bell will also be returned from the Dales Countryside Museum.

Hawes Junction rail crash

The Hawes Junction rail crash occurred at 5.49 am on 24 December 1910, just north of Lunds Viaduct between Hawes Junction (now known as Garsdale station) and Aisgill on the Midland Railway's Settle and Carlisle main line in the North Riding of Yorkshire (now Cumbria), England. It was caused when a busy signalman, Alfred Sutton, forgot about a pair of light engines waiting at his down (northbound) starting signal to return to their shed at Carlisle. They were still waiting there when the signalman set the road for the down Scotch express. When the signal cleared, the light engines set off in front of the express into the same block section. Since the light engines were travelling at low speed from a stand at Hawes Junction, and the following express was travelling at high speed, a collision was inevitable. The express caught the light engines just after Moorcock Tunnel near Aisgill summit in Mallerstang and was almost wholly derailed. Casualties were made worse by the telescoping (over-riding) of the timber-bodied coaches, and by fire which broke out in the coaches, fed by the gas for the coaches' lights leaking from ruptured pipes. Twelve people lost their lives as a result of this accident, some of whom were trapped in the wreckage and were burned to death.

Lunds Viaduct

Lunds Viaduct is a five-arch railway bridge in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct was built for the Midland Railway and carries the Settle to Carlisle railway line over South Lunds Sike, being named after the fell and hamlet of Lunds, just to the east. Work started on the viaduct in April 1874, and it was completed by July 1875, with the line opening for traffic in August 1875. Initial workings over the line were on a single track, but this had been doubled by October 1875. Just to the north of the viaduct was the point of the collision of the Hawes Junction rail crash.

Moorcock Inn, Hawes

The Moorcock Inn is a public house near the watershed between the rivers Clough and Ure, in Upper Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. It is adjacent to the junction of the A684 road and the B6259 road and near Garsdale railway station on the Settle–Carlisle line. The history of the inn can be traced back to the 1740s but it has been called The Moorcock only since 1840. The pub is near some long-distance paths and is popular with walkers.