A structure carrying both a horse tramway and water across the Luxulyan Valley.
Treffry Viaduct crosses the Luxulyan Valley inland from Par, near St Austell on Cornwall’s south coast. Built in 1839–42, it carried a horse tramway and a water channel for the connected industrial workings. Joseph Thomas Treffry promoted the undertaking; surveyors, engineers and builders, including Henry Rowe, made it possible. It belongs to his south-coast infrastructure and should not be confused with Newquay’s Trenance viaduct.
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