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Garnett Bridge, Garnett Bridge
Garnett Bridge
site name:-   Sprint, River
locality:-   Garnett Bridge
civil parish:-   Whitwell and Selside (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Strickland Roger (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD52369926
1Km square:-   SD5299
10Km square:-   SD59

photograph
BJX23.jpg (taken 7.10.2005)  
photograph
BJX24.jpg "W.C.C. GARNETT BRIDGE REPAIRED 1923" (taken 7.10.2005)  
evidence:-   probably old map:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
image
Sax9NY40.jpg
Low down the valley. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP14NY50.jpg
double line across the Sprint, bridge 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   perhaps old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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SAN2Cm.jpg
double line over a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Garnet Bridge
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
J5SD59NW.jpg
"Garnet B."
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) 
placename:-  Garnet Bridge
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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CY24SD59.jpg
"Garnet Br."
no buildings, but no bridge the Sprint crosses the road 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Garnett Bridge
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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GAR2NY50.jpg
"Garnett Br."
road crosses stream 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Garnett Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GARNETT BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER SPRINT / / GARNETT BRIDGE / STRICKLAND ROGER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76429 / SD5236699260"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GARNETT BRIDGE (THAT PART IN WHITEWELL AND SELSIDE C.P.) / / GARNETT BRIDGE / WHITWELL AND SELSIDE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75770 / SD5236799261"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge C18. Limestone rubble. Single arch carrying single track road over miniature natural gorge in limestone."
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over river Sprint. Probably C18, repaired 1923. Stone rubble with dressed coping. Segmental arch with thin voussoirs. Plain parapets, that to north has plaque to south side recording repair. Roadway is approx 3.5m wide. Part listed under Strickland Roger C.P."
observation:-  
 One inch of rain in a day, assuming it falls all over the valley, produces 4.261 x 10000 million cubic inches of water, that is 184 million gallons, which all has to get out in the River Sprint under Garnett Bridge.
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