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Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale
Stockley Bridge
site name:-   Grains Gill
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   flood
coordinates:-   NY23461090
1Km square:-   NY2310
10Km square:-   NY21

photograph
BNG75.jpg (taken 26.2.2007)  
photograph
BNG76.jpg (taken 26.2.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 75 1) 
placename:-  Stockley 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 painting:- Green 1790s-1820s (1813) 
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1813.
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item:-  Dove Cottage : 2005.27.21
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 45) 
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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Plate 45 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "45"
printed at bottom:-  "STOCKLEY BRIDGE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.45
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 37) 
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 37 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "37"
printed at bottom:-  "STOCKLEY BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.37
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 37) 
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 37 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "37"
printed at bottom:-  "STOCKLEY BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.37
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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page 20:-  "..."
"STOCKLEY BRIDGE."
"This is the last bridge in Borrowdale, on the road from Rosthwaite to Wasdale Head, and it is over a gill tumbling down the southern side of the mountain Sprinkling, which mountain is the back-ground of this scene."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 70:-  "..."
"After leaving ... Seathwaite, keeping Taylor's Gill on the right, Stockley Bridge will tempt the artist to make a momento of it, ..."
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 25 July 1846.
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and page number  "see B13. 16 & 17 & / 51"
"Stockley bridge / July 25. 1846."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.488.55
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1857.
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"Stockley Bridge"
page number  "35"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.389.44
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
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AS0322.jpg
"Stockley Bridge Borrodale"
"See B. p. / 7.57 / 18.35"
page number  "(16.)"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.22
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Stockley Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
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"Stockley Bridge"
page number  "17."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.23
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
item:-  drawing
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 155:-  "The descent upon Stockley bridge is easy; and the bridge itself was, a few years since, a favourite subject for sketches. A more picturesque one we never saw: but it has been spoiled in the repairing.- ..."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Stockley Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STOCKLEY BRIDGE / / / BORROWDALE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72143 / NY2346110905"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Packhorse bridge. Early or mid C18. Slate rubble. Narrow single-span humped-back bridge, with split-slate voussoirs under low parapet. Shown on a lithograph by William Green in 1814."

photograph
BNG74.jpg (taken 26.2.2007)  
hearsay:-  
 Widened 1887, washed away in floods 1966 after 5 inches of rain in an hour. It was rebuilt, and now has 15 foot span, 6 ft 4 ins between parapets. On packhorse route from Seathwaite over Sty Head Pass to Wasdale.
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