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Newbiggin Bridge, Newbiggin
Newbiggin Bridge
site name:-   Crowdundle Beck
locality:-   Newbiggin
civil parish:-   Newbiggin (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY62722871
1Km square:-   NY6228
10Km square:-   NY62


photograph
BME89.jpg (taken 1.6.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 4 12) 
placename:-  Newbiggin 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
J5NY62NW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY62NW.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge over the Crowdundle Beck 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Newbiggin Bridge
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
image
BEL9NY62.jpg
"NEWBIGGIN"
bridge symbol; on county boundary 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BRIDGE TO NORTH WEST OF NEWBIGGIN HALL / / / NEWBIGGIN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 423364 / NY6272528711"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge, late C18/early C19. Large, dressed, sandstone blocks, single segmental arch with hoodmould. Parapets have chamfered copings and are splayed at either end."

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