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Blindbeck Bridge, Barbondale
Blindbeck Bridge
site name:-   Blind Beck
locality:-   Barbondale
civil parish:-   Barbon (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD65548263
1Km square:-   SD6582
10Km square:-   SD68


photograph
BNH50.jpg  Not any water.
(taken 2.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 44 14) 
placename:-  Blindbeck 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:-   possibly old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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
J5SD68SE.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Blindbeck Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLINDBECK BRIDGE / / / BARBON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75595 / SD6554282618"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge. Probably C19. Stone rubble with dressed voussoirs. Segmental arch with simple hood. Plain parapets."


photograph
BNH56.jpg  View of river.
(taken 2.3.2007)  
photograph
BNH51.jpg  View of river.
Where it falls into the Barbon Beck, from Blindbeck Bridge.
(taken 2.3.2007)  

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