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Metal Bridge, Metalbridge
Metal Bridge
Esk Bridge
site name:-   Esk, River
site name:-   A74(M), Carlisle to Gretna
locality:-   Metalbridge
civil parish:-   Rockcliffe (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Kirkandrews (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   motorway bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY35486491
1Km square:-   NY3564
10Km square:-   NY36


photograph
BOA87.jpg (taken 31.8.2007)  
photograph
BOA89.jpg (taken 31.8.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Metal Bridge
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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BEL9NY36.jpg
"METAL BRIDGE"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   possibly (earlier?) old map:- Burrow 1920s
source data:-   Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.
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EJB3Vg63.jpg
item:-  private collection : 17
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BOA88.jpg  Notice nearby:-
"ESK BRIDGE . ERECTED BY / THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL / 1915 / TO REPLACE THE METAL BRIDGE ERECTED 1820 / ..." (taken 31.8.2007)  
photograph
BOA86.jpg  Innsign near the Metal Bridge, an earlier metal bridge.
(taken 31.8.2007)  

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