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Borrowdale Head Bridge, Borrowdale Head
Borrowdale Head Bridge
site name:-   Borrow Beck
locality:-   Borrowdale Head
civil parish:-   Fawcett Forest (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY54450413
1Km square:-   NY5404
10Km square:-   NY50


photograph
BJQ35.jpg (taken 22.7.2005)  
photograph
BJQ36.jpg (taken 22.7.2005)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Borrowdale Head Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BORROWDALE HEAD BRIDGE / / / FAWCETT FOREST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75633 / NY5445004135"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over Borrow Beck. Probably C18. Stone rubble. Segmental arch with thin, roughly regular voussoirs. No parapet, but iron railings to both sides. Roadway, now concrete, approx. 2.5m wide."

hearsay:-  
Probably 18th century.

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