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The west portal. Box Tunnel passes through Box Hill on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) between Bath and Chippenham.The 1.83-mile (2.95 km) tunnel was the world's longest railway tunnel when it was completed in 1841.
Other secret passages have sometimes been added after initial building. Secret tunnels have often been created as escape routes from prisons or prisoner-of-war camps, where they are known as escape tunnels. They typically require a hidden opening or door, and may involve other deceptive construction techniques, such as the creation of a false wall.
It can also mean a tunnel, or passage (i.e., a secret exit for those besieged). A sally , ultimately derived from Latin salīre (to jump), or "salle" sortie , is a military maneuver , typically during a siege , made by a defending force to harass isolated or vulnerable attackers before retreating to their defenses.
Plans have been revealed for what promises to be London’s most spectacular underground tourist attraction ever: a $268 million transformation of a mile-long series of World War II tunnels into a ...
A post on X claims that slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had a secret tunnel running underneath his Minnesota home. Verdict: False The images are not from his home. There is also no proof ...
This woman's viral TikTok shows her year-long journey of expanding her home with underground tunnel systems. She still has quite a journey ahead before they're done.
The tunnel was reportedly crawled through by the grandfather of a local man and may be related to the drainage of the nearby, now flooded, Hillhouse quarry, the Water Plantation area, and other Lainshaw estate lands. A tunnel is said to run from Loudoun Castle under the River Irvine to Cessnock Castle in Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland. [28]
RAF Rudloe Manor, formerly RAF Box, was a Royal Air Force station north-east of Bath, England, between the settlements of Box and Corsham, in Wiltshire.It was one of several military installations in the area and covered three dispersed sites.