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Cairn Bridge, Cairnbridge
Cairn Bridge
site name:-   Cairn Beck
locality:-   Cairnbridge
civil parish:-   Cumwhitton (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Hayton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY50405441
1Km square:-   NY5054
10Km square:-   NY55


photograph
BMN97.jpg (taken 25.8.2006)  
photograph
BMN98.jpg (taken 25.8.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 8) 
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.
"Ford / Foot Bridge"

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Cairn 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.
image
BEL9NY55.jpg
"CAIRN"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
BMO03.jpg  View of river.
(taken 25.8.2006)  


photograph
BMN99.jpg  Sandstone plaque:-
"CAIRN BRIDGE BUILT 1892" (taken 25.8.2006)  

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