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Lorton Low Bridge, Low Lorton
Lorton Low Bridge
site name:-   Cocker, River
locality:-   Low Lorton
civil parish:-   Lorton (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Blindbothel (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY15182564
1Km square:-   NY1525
10Km square:-   NY12


photograph
CDK91.jpg (taken 23.6.2015)  
photograph
CDK92.jpg (taken 23.6.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY12NW.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge over the Cocker at Lorton 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Low Lorton Bridge
placename:-  Lorton Bridge, Low
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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BEL9NY12.jpg
"LOW LORTON"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Lorton Low Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LORTON LOW BRIDGE / / / BLINDBOTHEL / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72532 / NY1517925648"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. Early C19. Slate rubble with red sandstone parapet. 2 segmental arches on central splayed cutwater. Solid ashlar parapet with saddle-back coping. This lies partly in Lorton C.P."

MN photo:-  
The old bridge was built 1843 and replaced by a new bridge after the floods of 2009.

photograph
BLZ98.jpg (taken 3.5.2006)  
photograph
BUO39.jpg (taken 13.5.2011)  

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