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Shepherd Bridge, Coniston
Shepherd Bridge
site name:-   Yewdale Beck
locality:-   Yewdale
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge (?perhaps) 
coordinates:-   SD30489782
1Km square:-   SD3097
10Km square:-   SD39


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BZL01.jpg (taken 15.10.2013)  
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BZL02.jpg  Under, evidence of widening.
(taken 15.10.2013)  
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BZL03.jpg (taken 15.10.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4 4) 
placename:-  Shepherd 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 print:- Green 1814 (plate 4) 
placename:-  Shepherds Bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Shepherds Bridge in Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image  click to enlarge
GN0904.jpg
Plate 4 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "4"
printed at bottom:-  "SHEPHERDS BRIDGE IN YEWDALE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.4
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 4) 
placename:-  Shepherds Bridge
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Shepherds Bridge in Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image  click to enlarge
GN1004.jpg
Plate 4 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "4"
printed at bottom:-  "SHEPHERDS BRIDGE IN YEWDALE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.4
Image © see bottom of page

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