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Castle Bridge, Mallerstang
Castle Bridge
site name:-   Eden, River
locality:-   Sandpot
locality:-   Pendragon Castle
locality:-   Mallerstang
civil parish:-   Mallerstang (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY78120280
1Km square:-   NY7802
10Km square:-   NY70


photograph
BJQ78.jpg (taken 24.7.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 30 11) 
placename:-  Castle 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 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.
image
J5NY70SE.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
Page 156:-  "..."
"She [Lady Anne Pembroke] built also the bridge over the Eden nigh the castle, ..."

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.
image
CY24NY70.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Eden 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Castle Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CASTLE BRIDGE OVER RIVER EDEN TO NORTH WEST OF PENDRAGON CASTLE / / / MALLERSTANG / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73357 / NY7811402796"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge, said to be C17 for Lady Anne Clifford; widened. Coursed rubble, slobbered with parapets. Single segmental arch spanning c30 ft; underside of arch shows original width to have been c4 ft, since widened to c12 ft."

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