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Netherbeck Bridge, Nether Wasdale
Netherbeck Bridge
site name:-   Nether Beck
locality:-   Wasdale
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY16160660
1Km square:-   NY1606
10Km square:-   NY10


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BMB62.jpg (taken 11.5.2006)  


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CFZ82.jpg (taken 28.4.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 74 14) 
placename:-  Netherbeck 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 text:- Green 1810
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p084, button  goto source
page 84:-  "..."
"The bridges on Nether and Over Becks are not of the safest, for, being narrow and shabbily fenced (that is picturesquely), some will not venture their carriages over them. The writer in company with a friend, passed in a gig, in 1809, that on Nether Beck, and would have found no hesitation in proceeding, but having arrived at Over Beck, a sight of Yew-barrow, Gable, and Scho-fell, from that place, was deemed sufficient."
image GN14p086, button  goto source
page 86:-  "Carriages may be left at Nether Beck Bridge, if the party think proper to proceed on foot to Over Beck, where Yew-barrow assumes its best form; and from thence to the head of the lake, or to Wastdale Head, just at the will of the tourist."

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Netherbeck 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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BEL9NY10.jpg
"NETHERBECK"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
CFZ83.jpg  View of river.
From Netherbeck Bridge,
(taken 28.4.2017)  
photograph
CFZ84.jpg  View of river.
From Netherbeck Bridge,
(taken 28.4.2017)  

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