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| Middleton Bridge, Middleton | ||
| Middleton Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Rawthey, River | |
| civil parish:- | Middleton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | SD63018975 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6389 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD68 | |
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 BLT33.jpg (taken 31.3.2006)  BXW48.jpg (taken 18.2.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63 6) placename:- Rawthey Bridge |
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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:- OS County Series (Wmd 40 13) placename:- Marthwaite New Bridge |
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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. OS County Series (Yrk 63) "Marthwaite New Bridge" |
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| evidence:- | probably old map:- Sanson 1679 |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland
aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of
Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles
to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679. click to enlargeSAN2Cm.jpg double line over a stream; bridge item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- New Bridge |
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| 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. J5SD69SW.jpg "New Bridge" double line, road, across a stream; bridge item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- New Bridge |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24SD69.jpg "New Br" road across a stream; bridge over the Rawthey item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Middleton Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MIDDLETON BRIDGE OVER RIVER RAWTHEY THAT PART IN SEDBERGH CP / / KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484595 / SD6300989753" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MIDDLETON BRIDGE (THAT PART IN MIDDLETON CP) / / A683 / MIDDLETON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75725 / SD6301289748" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Public road bridge over River Rawthey. Probably C17; altered in 1911. Mixed random rubble. One wide segmental arch with rubble voussoirs, a stone slate archband and an upper layer of voussoirs over the centre of this; re-built parapets with rounded coping, each with a square refuge corbelled out in the centre (added in 1911) and the ends splayed outwards. (The south half of this item is in Middleton CP.)" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Bridge over river Rawthey near confluence with river Lune. Probably late C17 or cL8, datestone in parapet reads 1670, with alterations of 1911. Stone rubble with some re-inforced concrete. Slightly stepped segmental arch. Plain parapet probably rebuilt. Central bracketed refuges partly of concrete. Roadway is 3m wide." |
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 BXW49.jpg View of river. (taken 18.2.2013) |
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