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bridge, St John's Castlerigg etc
site name:-   Naddle Beck
site name:-   road, Ambleside to Keswick
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY30032068
1Km square:-   NY3020
10Km square:-   NY32
SummaryText:-   This is the oldest, and lowest, of three bridges crossing the stream here.


photograph
BMX18.jpg (taken 23.10.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 11) 
placename:-  Roughow 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:-   presumably 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
D4NY22SE.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge at Shoulthwaite 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Ruffa 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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BEL9NY32.jpg
"RUFFA"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

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