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Spark Bridge, Spark Bridge
Spark Bridge
site name:-   Crake, River
locality:-   Spark Bridge
civil parish:-   Egton with Newland (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Colton (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD30668489
1Km square:-   SD3084
10Km square:-   SD38


photograph
BJR37.jpg (taken 5.8.2005)  
photograph
BJR38.jpg "C. C. SPARK BRIDGE" (taken 5.8.2005)  

evidence:-   possibly old map:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
image
Sax9SD28.jpg
Over the Crake. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   possibly old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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SEL7.jpg
two lines cross a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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MD12SD28.jpg
Double line over a stream, over the Crake? 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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