Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Holme Bridge, Drigg and Carleton
	Holme Bridge
site name:-	Irt, River
civil parish:-	Drigg and Carleton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	packhorse bridge
locality type:-	bridge
coordinates:-	SD07709872
1Km square:-	SD0798
10Km square:-	SD09
	BNT98.jpg (taken 5.6.2007)   BNU01.jpg (taken 5.6.2007)
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 82)  placename:-  Holme Bridge item:-  tide
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. "Holme Bridge / Foot Bridge / Ordinary Spring tides flow to this bridge"
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. Sax9NY00.jpg By Drig.  item:-  private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	possibly old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)  placename:-
source data:-	Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595. MER8CumE.jpg "" double across a stream; bridge, over the Irt???  item:-  JandMN : 169 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	probably old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)
source data:-	Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12. SP11SD09.jpg double line across the Irt  item:-  private collection : 16 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	probably old map:- Jansson 1646
source data:-	Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646. JAN3SD09.jpg Double line crossing the stream.  item:-  JandMN : 88 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	probably 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.   click to enlarge SAN2Cm.jpg double line over a stream; bridge  item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	probably old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)
source data:-	Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715. MD12SD09.jpg Double line over a stream, over the Irt.  item:-  JandMN : 90 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	probably old map:- Badeslade 1742 placename:-
source data:-	Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.   click to enlarge BD10.jpg "" double line across a stream at Drigg  item:-  JandMN : 115 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. BO18SD09.jpg road across the Irt  item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page
	BNU02.jpg (taken 5.6.2007)
:-	39 foot span, 70 ins between parapets. On packhorse route from Ravenglass to Drigg and north.
	Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)

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