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| Gilderdale Bridge, Alston Moor | ||
| Gilderdale Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Gilderdale Burn | |
| civil parish:- | Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| locality type:- | boundary feature | |
| locality type:- | county boundary feature | |
| coordinates:- | NY70214840 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7048 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY74 | |
| current boundary | ||
| locality:- | Cumbria boundary | |
| old boundary | ||
| locality:- | Cumberland boundary | |
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 BML69.jpg (taken 29.7.2006)  BML70.jpg Incribed stone in the east parapet:- "This BRIDGE was Built BY THE Counties of Northumberland and CUMBERLAND 185[ ]" (taken 29.7.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 33 8) placename:- Gilderdale 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:- | old map:- Bell 1892 placename:- Gilderdale Bridge |
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| 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. BEL9NY74.jpg "GILDERDALE" bridge symbol; on county boundary Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges item:- Carlisle Library : Map 38 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Gilderdale Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GILDERDALE BRIDGE / / A689 / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73090 / NY7021548398" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Bridge, dated 1830. Coursed, squared rubble with flat copings; curved lead-ups have low end piers with chamfered capstones. Single, tall, segmental arch with pilaster buttresses to either side. Panel to centre of each parapet on inner faces has dated inscription: This BRIDGE was Built BY THE Counties of Northumberland &Cumberland 1830. Crosses county boundary with Northumberland." |
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 BML73.jpg View of river. (taken 29.7.2006) |
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 BML71.jpg Inscribed stone in the west parapet:- "THIS Bridge WAS Built [BY THE] Counties [ ] NORTHUMBERLAND [ ] Cumberland 185[6]" (taken 29.7.2006)  BML72.jpg Footings of an earlier bridge, a short way above the present bridge; in a drought. (taken 29.7.2006) |
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