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Low Borrow Bridge, Tebay
Low Borrow Bridge
site name:-   Borrow Beck
locality:-   Low Borrowbridge
civil parish:-   Tebay (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Grayrigg (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY60930144
1Km square:-   NY6001
10Km square:-   NY60


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BLL26.jpg (taken 9.12.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 28 16) 
placename:-  Low Barrow Bridge
placename:-  Barrow Bridge, Low
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:- 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.
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N of Hawse howse. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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Road crossing and interrupting the Borrow Beck. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Burrow Bridge
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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BD12.jpg
"Burrow Bridge"
double line across a stream 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Barrow Bridge
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.
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"Barrow Bridge"
road across the Borrow Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Low Burrow Bridge
placename:-  Burrow Bridge, Low
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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"Low Burrow 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:-  Low Burrow Bridge
placename:-  Burrow Bridge, Low
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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CY24NY60.jpg
"L Burrow Bridge"
road across a stream; bridge over the Borrow Beck 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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