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Warwick Bridge, Warwick Bridge
Warwick Bridge
site name:-   Eden, River
locality:-   Warwick Bridge
civil parish:-   Wetheral (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY46925672
1Km square:-   NY4656
10Km square:-   NY45


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BMN82.jpg (taken 25.8.2006)  
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BMN85.jpg (taken 25.8.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 2) 
placename:-  Warwick 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:- 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.
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Sax9NY45.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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double across a stream; bridge, over the Eden 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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Double line crossing the stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86) 
source data:-   Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from Tinmouth ... to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In mile 64, Cumberland. 
Road crosses over:-  "a Stone bridg Eden fluv:"
no bridge is drawn. 
item:-  JandMN : 73
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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double line over a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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SEL9.jpg
double line across a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.89
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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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Double line over a stream, over the Eden at Warwick. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 232) 
placename:-  Warwick Stone Bridge
source data:-   Road strip map, road map, pl.232, part of The Road from Tinmouth to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Northumberland and Cumberland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.
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"Warwick Stone Br. over Eden Flu; mile 64½."
item:-  JandMN : 65.232
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evidence:-   old map, descriptive text:- Bowen 1720 (plate 232) 
source data:-   Road book, Britannia Depicta Or Ogilby Improv'd, including road strip maps with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, derived from maps by Ogilby, 1675, also a county map of Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, and of Cumberland, scale about 16.5 miles to 1 inch, each with text, by John Owen, published by Emanuel Bowen, London, 1720; published 1720-64.
"Warwick Stone Bridge (at 64¾) was built not many years since at the joint & equal expence of the Salkelds and Richmonds, two ancient and worthy Families in this County; out of a generous regard to ye conveniency &safety of Travellers."

evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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double line across a stream 
item:-  JandMN : 115
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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"... In the last Age, the Richmonds and Salkelds bearing the Expence equally, built a very strong Stone Bridge over the Eden for the Convenience of Travellers. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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road cross the Eden 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Warwick Bridge
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Warwick Bridge"
double line across a river; a bridge 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 174:-  "..."
"... Warwic ... in the last age a strong stone bridge was built at the expence of the Salkelds and Richmonds: ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Warwick Bridge
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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"WARWICK"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Warwick Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WARWICK BRIDGE / / A69 / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77747 / NY4691656720"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Road bridge. Begun 1833, completed 1835, by Francis Giles, built by William Denton. Red sandstone ashlar. 2 piers with rounded cutwaters supporting 3 shallow segmental arches: bold string course and solid parapets: channelled joints to masonry and voussoirs. Inscription stone in both parapets records architect and builder with dates. Carries 2 lines of road traffic. A bridge of excellent architectural and engineering quality, by the architect of Corby Bridge. Replaced C16 bridge, slightly upstream, which in turn replaced a medieval bridge: on an important crossing point over the River Eden for the approach to Carlisle from the east. Pevsner, Buildings of England, wrongly ascribes the bridge to Dobson and dates it 1837."


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BMN86.jpg  View of river.
(taken 25.8.2006)  


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BMN83.jpg  Sandstone plaque on south parapet:-
"ARTE ET CONSILIO FRANCISCI GILES ARCH CVRA ET LABORE CVL DENTON PRAEF OPERVM PONS INCHOATVS AN M D CCC XXX III BIENNIO PERFECTVS" (taken 25.8.2006)  
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BMN84.jpg  Sandstone plaque on north parapet:-
"WARWICK BRIDGE FRANCIS GILES CIVIL ENGINEER WILLIAM DENTON BUIDLER MDCCCXXXIII MDCCCXXXV" (taken 25.8.2006)  

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