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Birks Bridge, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite
Birks Bridge
site name:-   Duddon, River
civil parish:-   Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Ulpha (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD23429934
1Km square:-   SD2399
10Km square:-   SD29
old boundary
locality:-   Cumberland boundary
locality:-   Lancashire boundary
references:-   Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)

photograph
BLK39.jpg (taken 17.11.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 84 1) 
placename:-  Birks Bridge
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Birks Bridge, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Lancashire and Ulpha, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
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AS0357.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.57
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Birks Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Birks Bridge, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Lancashire and Ulpha, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
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AS0358.jpg
"Birks Bridge / Seathwaite."
page number  "42"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.58
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Birks Bridge, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Lancashire and Ulpha, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 6 September 1852.
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AS0359.jpg
"Septr 6./52"
page number  "43"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.59
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Birks Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BIRKS BRIDGE / / / DUNNERDALE WITH SEATHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75840 / SD2341899345"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over River Duddon. Probably C18. Stone rubble. Segmental arch over small ravine. Dressed voussoirs. Parapets have drain pipes built in to drain roadway, and extend to east with rectangular openings. 2.5m wide."
evidence:-   old print:- MacBride 1922
placename:-  Birks Bridge
source data:-   Print, colour, Birks Bridge, Duddon Valley, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928.
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MB0130.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.213 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride. 
printed at bottom:-  "BIRKS BRIDGE, DUDDON VALLEY"
signed at lower left:-  "A. HEATON COOPER"
item:-  JandMN : 195.32
Image © see bottom of page
:-  
 12 foot span, 6 ft 6 ins between parapets.

Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)
notes:-  
 Edwin Waugh said:-
"The stream comes down to a narrow channel, where the rocks are worn into quaint arches and fantastic shapes that might be the ruins of some water sprite's palace. The river settles here in pools of clear green tinged water, beautiful as liquid emeralds."

Baron 1925
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