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Plate 53 is a context image (undated) showing the Platelayers' Hut and the south portal of Blea Moor Tunnel (see SCRCA structure 249300). The tunnel is 2629 yards long, reaches a depth of 500ft below the moor and took five years to construct between 1870 and 1875. Also in the image is milepost 249 1/4.