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| packhorse bridge, Boot | ||
| Bleabeck Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Whillan Beck | |
| locality:- | Boot | |
| civil parish:- | Eskdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | packhorse bridge | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | NY17630113 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1701 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY10 | |
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 BYF22.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  BRK66.jpg (taken 14.9.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Barber and Atkinson 1927 |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, Whillan Beck and Old Mill, Boot, Eskdale, Cumberland,
by E H Atkinson, published by James Atkinson, Caxton Printing Works, Ulverston, Lancashire,
1928. click to enlargeAK0403.jpg Tipped in opposite p.18 of Lakeland Passes, by John B Barber and George Atkinson, 1927, 3rd edn 1928. at inter negative:- "BOOT, WHILLAN BECK &OLD MILL / Atkinson's Series 949" printed at bottom:- "Photo E. H. Atkinson) Beginning of Walk from Boot over Burn Moor to Wasdale Head. (To face plage 18." item:- JandMN : 350.4 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BRIDGE OVER WHILLAN BECK TO SOUTH WEST OF CORN MILL / / / ESKDALE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76209 / NY1763601125" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Road bridge. Built as packhorse bridge, probably in early C18. Random rubble. Single segmental arch spanning c25 ft; roadway c7 ft wide with parapets c3 ft high." |
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 BMW27.jpg (taken 13.10.2006)  BMW28.jpg (taken 13.10.2006) |
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27 foot span, 6 ft 6 ins between parapets. |
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| Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe,
Cumbria) |
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