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Powmaughan Bridge, Wetheral
Powmaughan Bridge
site name:-   Pow Maughan
locality:-   Aglionby
civil parish:-   Wetheral (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY44255622
1Km square:-   NY4456
10Km square:-   NY45


photograph
BMN72.jpg (taken 25.8.2006)  
photograph
BMN73.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL / POWMAUGHAN BRIDGE / RECONSTRUCTED 1937" (taken 25.8.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 1) 
placename:-  Powmaughan 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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86) 
source data:-   Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from Tinmouth ... to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
image
OG86m065.jpg
In mile 66, Cumberland.  "a Rill"
drawn across the road, no bridge. 
item:-  JandMN : 73
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Powmaughan 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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BEL9NY45.jpg
"POWMAUGHAN"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

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