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Deepthwaite Bridge, Heversham
Deepthwaite Bridge
site name:-   Stainton Beck (2)
locality:-   Deepthwaite
civil parish:-   Heversham (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Preston Richard (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD51858339
1Km square:-   SD5183
10Km square:-   SD58

photograph
BMX71.jpg (taken 29.10.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 16) 
placename:-  Deepthwaite 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:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Deebit Bridge
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD58SW.jpg
"Deebit Bridge"
double line, road, across a stream; bridge and circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Decbit Bridge
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24SD58.jpg
"Decbit Br"
road across a stream; bridge over the Stainton Beck 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Deepthwaite Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"DEEPTHWAITE BRIDGE OVER STAINTON BECK / / / HEVERSHAM / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76495 / SD5185783387"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge. Possibly with C17 core; rebuilt and widened c1890. Limestone rubble with limestone voussoirs and copings to parapets. 2 arches with cutwaters, long sloping parapets."
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