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Sampool Bridge, Levens
Sampool Bridge
Gilpin Bridge
site name:-   Gilpin, River
locality:-   Sampool
civil parish:-   Levens (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD47198545
1Km square:-   SD4785
10Km square:-   SD48


photograph
BRL10.jpg (taken 18.9.2009)  
photograph
BRL11.jpg (taken 18.9.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 6) 
placename:-  Gilpin's 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 map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42) 
placename:-  Gilpin's Bridge
item:-  tides
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.
"Gilpin's Br. / Ordinary Spring Tides flow to this bridge"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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.
image
J5SD48NE.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24SD48.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Gilpin 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BRL13.jpg  View of river.
(taken 18.9.2009)  


photograph
BRL12.jpg  Just by the bridge is a totem pole.
(taken 18.9.2009)  

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