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Lincolns Inn Bridge, Firbank
Lincolns Inn Bridge
site name:-   Lune, River
locality:-   Bridge End
civil parish:-   Firbank (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD63179227
1Km square:-   SD6392
10Km square:-   SD69

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BVU51.jpg (taken 13.1.2012)  
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BVU52.jpg (taken 13.1.2012)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 40 5) 
placename:-  Lincoln's Inn 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:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Lincolns Inn 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.
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J5SD69SW.jpg
"Lincolns Inn Bridge"
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:-  Lincolns Inn 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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CY24SD69.jpg
"Lincolns Inn Br"
road across a stream; bridge and buildings 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Lincoln's Inn Bridge
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
image CY38p315, button  goto source
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C38315.jpg
page 315-316  "Lincoln's Inn Bridge / 1½Miles beyond Lincoln's Inn Bridge, on r. a T.R. to Kirkby Lonsdale."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Lincolns Inn Bridge
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Lincolns Inn Bri."
bridge 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Lincoln's Inn Bridge
source data:-   Road map, Continuation of the Roads to Glasgow and Edinburgh, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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Lw21.jpg
"Lincoln's Inn Bridge"
bridge; on county boundary 
item:-  private collection : 18.21
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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COP4.jpg
road across stream; bridge? 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Lincolns Inn Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LINCOLNS INN BRIDGE (THAT PART IN FIRBANK CP) / / A684 / FIRBANK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75639 / SD6311192300"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LINCOLNS INN BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER LUNE THAT PART IN SEDBERGH CP / / A 684 / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484495 / SD6317692269"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over river Lune. Cl7 or C18 (repaired in 1780). Stone rubble. 2 stepped segmental arches, that to east the wider, flanking pier with triangular cutwaters, that to north a rebuilding in ashlar. Plain parapets probably rebuilt. Roadway approx. 3.5m wide."
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public road bridge over River Lune. Probably C17; altered. Mostly mixed random rubble, with parapets of coursed rubble. Two low segmental arches of unequal width, with stepped rubble voussoirs, springing from a pier near to the west bank of the river which has triangular cutwaters to both up- and downstream ends carried up as triangular buttresses. The parapets to the longer eastern span are horizontal, those to the shorter western span slope downwards. (The western half of this item is in Lambrigg CP.)"

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BVU53.jpg  View of river.
(taken 13.1.2012)  

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BJY97.jpg (taken 4.11.2005)  
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BJY98.jpg (taken 4.11.2005)  
observation:-  
 The farm at Bridge End, the west end of the bridge, is called Lincolns Inn Bridge Farm.
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