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Waver Bridge, Waverbridge
Waver Bridge
site name:-   Waver, River
locality:-   Waverbridge
civil parish:-   Waverton (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Dundraw (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY22284908
1Km square:-   NY2249
10Km square:-   NY24


photograph
BNO18.jpg (taken 11.4.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 28 8) 
placename:-  Waver 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
placename:-  Waver 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.
"Waver Bridge"

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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.
image
D4NY24NW.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge at Ware Bridge 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Ware Bridge
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
image CY38p321, button  goto source
image  click to enlarge
C38321.jpg
page 321-322  "Ware Bridge / Cross the Waver River"
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Waver 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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BEL9NY24.jpg
"WAVER"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
BNO19.jpg  View of river.
(taken 11.4.2007)  

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