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Crookelty Bridge, Underskiddaw
Crookelty Bridge
site name:-   Mill Beck (5)
locality:-   Millbeck
civil parish:-   Underskiddaw (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY25332584
1Km square:-   NY2525
10Km square:-   NY22


photograph
BLO23.jpg (taken 20.1.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 56 13) 
placename:-  Crookelty 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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
image
OG96m030.jpg
In mile 31, Cumberland.  "a Rill"
drawn across the road, implying no bridge? 
item:-  JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

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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BO18NY22.jpg
road across Mill Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Crookety 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.
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BEL9NY22.jpg
"CROOKETY"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

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