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St Lawrence's Bridge, Appleby
St Lawrence's Bridge
Appleby Bridge
site name:-   Eden, River
Street:-   Bridge Street
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   street
coordinates:-   NY68432043
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62

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BUS95.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
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BJY69.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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At Appleby. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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Double line over the Eden, at Appleby. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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Double line over a stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Hill 1754
source data:-   Town plan, A Plan of Appleby in Westmorland, scale about 32 ins to 1 mile, engraved by Nathaniel Hill, 1754.
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item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 211
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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road across the Eden 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
item:-  gate
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
image PEN6p139, button  goto source
Pennant's Tour 1773, page 139  "... After crossing a bridge guarded by a gateway since pulled down, I entered the small town of Appleby, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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bridge over the Eden 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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road across stream; bridge? 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  St Lawrence's Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ST LAWRENCE'S BRIDGE / / BRIDGE STREET / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73661 / NY6843520433"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Rebuilt 1889 in Georgian style. Red and grey stone, two segmental arches flanked by three-sided cutwaters. Quatrefoiled Gothic circles in the spandrels."
evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35 (vol.1 no.57) 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Appleby, Westmorland, drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by M J Starling, published by Peter Jackson, London and Paris, 1830s.
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vol.1 pl.57 in the set of prints, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated, originally. In the foreground water is being fetched from the River Eden. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "T. Allom. / M. J. Starling. / APPLEBY, WESTMORLAND. / PETER JACKSON, LONDON &PARIS."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.21
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mapping:-    Appleby: Bridge Street
 Appleby: Bridge Street Appleby: Sands
 Appleby: Sands
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