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The Bramhope Monument (also called 'The Navvies Monument') is a well known Grade II listed monument that remembers the fact that 23 men died whilst digging a two and a quarter mile tunnel [ 2 miles and 243 yards actually] for the new railway line under Bramhope Moor between 1845-49.
This awful toll equates to at least one life for every 160 yards of tunnel, the true death rate though was probably much higher.
The main problems encountered were flooding and subsidence, which pushed the final cost to over £2 million {UK} pounds.
The monument, which is a model of the northern entrance of the tunnel, was erected by James Bray who was the contractor for this section of the line, in 1850.


Visiting:-Easily found in the churchyard.

Co-ords 420150 445350 / SE 201453  

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