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| Force Mill Bridge, Force Mills | ||
| Force Mill Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Force Beck (2) | |
| locality:- | Force Mills | |
| civil parish:- | Satterthwaite (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | SD33919095 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3390 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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 CES38.jpg (taken 11.3.2016)  BND09.jpg Inscribed stone:- "C. C. FORCE MILL BRIDGE" (taken 2.2.2007) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 1) placename:- Force Mill Bridge |
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| 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:- | old text:- Gents Mag placename:- Foss Bridge item:- accident |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1799 p.518 "May 13. A few nights ago three gentlemen set off from Hawkeshead, to go to a place near Ulverston, in Lancashire: soon after they got upon the road, which is in some parts very indifferent, and in general very uneven, two of them proposed to gallop their horses to a certain distance, of a few paces, for a trifling wager. They were riding at full speed, when, coming to a place called Foss Bridge (about 6 miles from Hawkshead), at the bottom of a steep hill, both horses ran with such violence against the dry parapet wall of the bridge as to break it down; both, of course, plunged into the stream, the bed and sides of which are rock. One of the gentlemen (a young man of the name of Taylor) was killed upon the spot, as also was his horse. The other one had one of his thighs broken, and the leg shattered in a dreadful manner. The third person, whom they had left at some distance behind, passed the bridge soon afterwards, without perceiving what had happened; but not long after, the discovery was made by a man travelling that way, who was alarmed by the groans of the survivor, whom, with the dead body of his companion, he found in the horrible situation above described." |
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 BND10.jpg View of river. (taken 2.2.2007) |
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