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bridge, Orton
site name:-   Chapel Beck (2)
locality:-   Orton
civil parish:-   Orton S (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   packhorse bridge (?) 
coordinates:-   NY62400798
1Km square:-   NY6207
10Km square:-   NY60


photograph
BNL66.jpg (taken 30.3.2007)  
photograph
BNL67.jpg  The stream below the bridge is divided, part being sent off into the grounds of Orton Hall.
(taken 30.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
image
BO18NY51.jpg
road across Chapel Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

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Local access from village to fields?

Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)

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