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Cow Bridge, Hartsop
Cow Bridge
site name:-   Goldrill Beck
locality:-   Hartsop
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY40261337
1Km square:-   NY4013
10Km square:-   NY41


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BLK66.jpg (taken 5.12.2005)  
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BLK76.jpg (taken 5.12.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 3) 
placename:-  Cow 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:- 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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MD10NY41.jpg
Double line over a stream, over the Goldrill Beck; the map is confused here, but the road has to cross this stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   probably 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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BO18NY30.jpg
road across Goldrill Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

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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J5NY41SW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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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CY24NY41.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Goldrill 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Cow Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"COW BRIDGE / / / PATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 452390 / NY4025813376"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"C17 packhorse bridge, now widened."

observation:-  
Now bypassed by road improvement.

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