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| Wreaks Causeway End Bridge, Kirkby Ireleth | ||
| Wreaks Causeway End Bridge | ||
| Causeway End Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Kirkby Pool | |
| locality:- | Wreaks Causeway | |
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Ireleth (formerly Lancashire) | |
| civil parish:- | Broughton West (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | SD23188619 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2386 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD28 | |
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 BJR39.jpg (taken 5.8.2005)  BJR40.jpg "C.C. WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE" (taken 5.8.2005) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 7 13) placename:- Wreaks Causeway End Bridge |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Wreaks Causeway End Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE (THAT PART IN BROUGHTON WEST CP) / / A595 / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75810 / SD2317986197" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Bridge. Plan dated 1777. Coursed stone rubble. 3 low segmental arches with cutwaters to north side. Low flat parapets, probably renewed but retaining flat coping stones inscribed in 1870s by local mason who also worked on barn opposite Ship Inn, Kirkby Ireleth C.P. (q.v.) and other buildings in Kirkby Ireleth. Inscriptions: "ENGLAND FOR EVER", "BE KIND TO THE POOR"; "GP/1878" etc. Part of this item is in Kirkby Ireleth C.P." |
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| MN photo:- |
Many of the top stones on the bridge parapets have inscriptions, not easy to read:- |
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 BJR41.jpg "[YELLOW FOR EVER]" (taken 5.8.2005)  BJR42.jpg "[ENGLAND FOR EVER]" (taken 5.8.2005)  BJR43.jpg "[TOMORROW MAY BE ]" (taken 5.8.2005)  BJR44.jpg "[EXPECT EVERY DAY WILL DO ... TY]" (taken 5.8.2005)  BJR45.jpg "[NIL DESPERAND ]" (taken 5.8.2005) |
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| The words are graffiti, but are proper mason work lettering. |
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| hearsay:- |
The inscriptions were made by postman Thomas Dawson, while waiting patiently for the
mails! |
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| "Happy land. A sensible man won't offend me and no other can. Be kind to the poor.
Shelling green peas. England for ever. Englands expects every man this day will do
his duty. I can paddle my own canoe. Do not stop long at the fair. They laugh best
who laugh last. Put your shoulder to the wheel. Nil desperandum." |
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| also see:- |  Merchant's Barn, Sand Side |
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