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Bleabeck Bridge, Ulpha
Bleabeck Bridge
site name:-   Blea Beck (2)
civil parish:-   Ulpha (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD18929190
1Km square:-   SD1891
10Km square:-   SD19
references:-   Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)

photograph
BOI46.jpg (taken 6.11.2007)  
photograph
BOI47.jpg (taken 6.11.2007)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BRIDGE ON OLD COACH ROAD / / / ULPHA / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 479996 / SD1891991925"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Road Bridge. C18 or earlier. Random Lakeland stone rubble with slab copings. Narrow rural overbridge with near- parallel abutments and low, roughly -coped parapet walls. Single arch span, with low segmental arch rising from boulder springers, and formed with narrow, elongated and roughly -shaped voussoirs. South end of the bridge with vertically-set flagstones as terminal piers to parapet walls. The bridge carries an old coach road over the Blea Beck into the Duddon valley."
"HISTORY. This bridge carried a long- established rural routeway through the parish of Ulpha. Between 1844 and !845, the route was used a a coach link for the railway line then in the course of construction, and intended to pass through Broughton-in Furness to join the Whitehaven and Furness Junction line. This horse link was indicated in the railway timetables of the period. A little- altered rural overbridge of C18 date, displaying typical regional vernacular detailing, and historically linked for a short period to the development of the Cumbrial railway network."
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 The original arch, upstream, is 7 foot wide, now widened to 11 foot; span 12 foot.

Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)
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