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| Pasture Beck Bridge, Hartsop | ||
| Pasture Beck Bridge | ||
| Walker Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Pasture Beck | |
| locality:- | Hartsop | |
| civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | packhorse bridge | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | NY41031295 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4112 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |
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 BJS74.jpg (taken 17.8.2005)  BJS75.jpg Underneath, it's possible to see widening. (taken 17.8.2005) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Pasture Beck Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "PASTURE BECK BRIDGE / / / PATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 452392 / NY4103312953" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "C17 packhorse bridge at the east end of the hamlet. Single round arch of wedge-shaped stones without a parapet. Widened, but still used only for pedestrians. For group notes see General group description under Low Hartsop." |
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| evidence:- | probably old print:- Green 1809 |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Bridge at Hartsope, probably Pasture Beck Bridge, Hartsop,
Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside,
Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809. click to enlargeGN0366.jpg Plate 66 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. printed in introductory pages to set of prints:- "Number 66. Hartsope, which is a village, consists of fourteen or fifteen houses, and is seven miles from Ambleside on the road to Patterdale over Kirkstone. It is near this place that the carriage and horse roads divide, meeting again at Goldrill Bridge near the Inn. ..." printed at bottom:- "BRIDGE AT HARTSOPE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6637.66 Image © see bottom of page |
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Sometimes called Walker Bridge. 15 foot span, widened to 11 ft, no parapets. |
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| Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe,
Cumbria) |
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