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Crow Park Bridge, Lancaster Canal
Crow Park Bridge
Crowpark Bridge
bridge no.181
site name:-   Lancaster Canal
Street:-   Hawes Lane
locality:-   Natland
civil parish:-   Natland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   canal bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD51368910
1Km square:-   SD5189
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
BYM37.jpg (taken 7.6.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 16) 
placename:-  Crowpark 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:- 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
CY24SD58.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Lancaster Canal 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Crowpark Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LANCASTER KENDAL CANAL, CROWPARK BRIDGE OVER LANCASTER/KENDAL CANAL / / HAWES LANE / NATLAND / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76450 / SD5139089018"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Canal Bridge. 1818 by John Fletcher, engineer, from the original designs of John Rennie whose route for the canal was authorised in 1792. Squared, coursed limestone with limestone string and coping. Single flattened elliptical arch with rusticated voussoirs and keystone. Shallow arched parapets. Approx. 12' wide between parapets. Canal now dry."


photograph
BYM38.jpg  View N.
(taken 7.6.2013)  
photograph
BYM39.jpg  View S.
(taken 7.6.2013)  
photograph
BYM45.jpg  Stone, significance?
(taken 7.6.2013)  

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