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Church Bridge, Dent
Church Bridge
site name:-   Dee, River
locality:-   Dent
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD70758716
1Km square:-   SD7087
10Km square:-   SD78


photograph
BMG72.jpg (taken 16.6.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 64 13) 
placename:-  Church 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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH BRIDGE / / CHURCH BRIDGE / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484237 / SD7075487164"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public road bridge over River Dee. Probably late C18. Coursed sandstone rubble with hammer-dressed plinths and voussoirs, chiselled coping to parapets. Wide segmental arch with dressed voussoirs, springing from broad terminal piers with stepped plinths; string course to parapets. Long ramp abutments to east and west, that to the west with a low stilted segmental-arched flood sluice under it."

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