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footbridge, Bridge End
site name:-   Sprint, River
locality:-   Longsleddale
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   footbridge
coordinates:-   NY51060101
1Km square:-   NY5101
10Km square:-   NY50


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BTO55.jpg (taken 24.9.2010)  
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BTO56.jpg (taken 24.9.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 4) 
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:-   descriptive text:- 
source data:-   Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England: 1936: Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland: HMSO "FOOTBRIDGE, over the Sprint at Bridge End ... consists of two rubble abutments approached by ramps and connected by a wooden foot-bridge. The bridge was repaired in 1672."

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
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"F.B."

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