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| Hucks Bridge, Fawcett Forest | ||
| Hucks Bridge | ||
| Huck's Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Borrow Beck | |
| site name:- | road, Kendal to Shap | |
| locality:- | Borrowdale | |
| civil parish:- | Fawcett Forest (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Whinfell (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| coordinates:- | NY55260396 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5503 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY50 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 28 9) placename:- High Borrow Bridge placename:- Borrow Bridge, High |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes,
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to
1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies,
Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick,
Cumberland, et al, 1833. OT02NY50.jpg Implied by a road across the stream. item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 placename:- Kirkbythore Bridge placename:- Borough Bridge item:- accident |
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| source data:- | HP01p107.txt Page 107:- "..." "The coaching accidents on this stage [Kendal to Penrith] were remarkably few. The principal happening of this kind was when a country mail was upset at Kirkbythore Bridge, on Hucks Brow, owing to the horses shying at a quite inoffensive water-wheel. The coach fell eight feet, and a horse was killed, but there the damage ended. A stalwart Yorkshire wool-stapler, who was riding outside, was flung off and made to perform a complete somersault, but he alighted safely on his feet, and just in time to catch, at "mid-off," a parcel which shot with wondrous velocity out of a woman's arms, and proved on inspection to be a baby. He said, dryly, when they congratulated him on his fielding, that "a stray baby isn't generally a good catch for a man."" HP01p111.txt Page 111:- "..."  click to enlargeHP0108.jpg "BOROUGHBRIDGE, SHAP FELL." item:- JandMN : 1055.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Hucks Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "HUCKS BRIDGE / / A6 / FAWCETT FOREST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75625 / NY5526203958" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Bridge over Borrow Beck. 1826 with C20 parapets and widening to east. By Francis Webster and J.L. McAdam. Stone rubble. 2 round arches with triangular cutwaters to piers. Raking abutments. Plain parapet, over band to east. Roadway approx. 15.5m wide, of which approx. 9m is width of original bridge (cf Bannisdale Low Bridge). On route of Heron Syke to Eamont Bridge turnpike road established in 1820s, replacing old route over High Borrow Bridge." |
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| observation:- |
The maiden surname of the mother of the sheep farmer, Brian Knowles, living just by
the bridge is Huck. |
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| hearsay:- |
Built 1826, by Francis Webster and J L McAdam; widened, and new parapets 20th century. |
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