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Whelpo Bridge, Whelpo
Whelpo Bridge
site name:-   Whelpo Beck
locality:-   Whelpo
civil parish:-   Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY30823965
1Km square:-   NY3039
10Km square:-   NY33


photograph
BLR55.jpg (taken 9.3.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 37 16) 
placename:-  Whelpo 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:- 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
D4NY33NW.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge at Whelpo 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Whelpo 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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BEL9NY33.jpg
"WHELPO"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Whelpo Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WHELPO BRIDGE / / / CALDBECK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72420 / NY3081939651"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. Probably C18 with C19 and C20 repairs. Mixed limestone, sandstone and cobble rubble. Narrow single segmental arched hump-backed bridge under solid parapet with chamfered coping."

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