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Penton Bridge, Nicholforest
Penton Bridge
site name:-   Liddel Water
locality:-   Penton
civil parish:-   Nicholforest (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   boundary feature
locality type:-   county boundary feature
locality type:-   national boundary feature
coordinates:-   NY43277744
1Km square:-   NY4377
10Km square:-   NY47
country:-   Scotland
current boundary
locality:-   Cumbria boundary


photograph
BMQ44.jpg (taken 15.9.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 3 13) 
placename:-  Penton 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:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Penton 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
BEL9NY47.jpg
"PENTON"
bridge symbol; on county boundary, national boundary 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
CBN50.jpg  View of river.
(taken 29.8.2014)  
photograph
CBN51.jpg  View of river.
(taken 29.8.2014)  

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