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Sosgill Bridge, St John's Castlerigg etc
Sosgill Bridge
site name:-   St John's Beck
locality:-   St John's in the Vale
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY31572105
1Km square:-   NY3121
10Km square:-   NY32


photograph
BND92.jpg  Leading to Sosgill.
(taken 5.2.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 12) 
placename:-  Sosgill 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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY32SW.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge at Sosgill 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 27) 
placename:-  Soskeld Bridge
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Soskeld Bridge, St John's in the Vale, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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GN1027.jpg
Sosgill Bridge on the St John's Beck. 
Plate 27 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "27"
printed at bottom:-  "SOSKELD BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.27
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 27) 
placename:-  Soskeld Bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Soskeld Bridge, St John's in the Vale, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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GN0927.jpg
Sosgill Bridge on the St John's Beck. 
Plate 27 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "27"
printed at bottom:-  "SOSKELD BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Soskeld Bridge
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p15, button  goto source
page 15:-  "..."
"Soskeld Bridge is upon the Greta, about a mile below the Keswick road. ..."

evidence:-   perhaps old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Castle Rock, St John's in the Vale, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1857.
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AS0551.jpg
"Castle Rock / see p 41"
page number  "40"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.389.51
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sosgill Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SOSGILL BRIDGE / / / ST JOHNS CASTLERIGG AND WYTHBURN / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72184 / NY3157521052"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Packhorse bridge. C18. Slate rubble. Narrow single-span segmental-arched humped-back bridge, with split slate voussoirs under solid parapets and rubble coping."

evidence:-   perhaps old print:- Green 1790s-1820s
placename:-  Sosgill Bridge
item:-  road
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Soskeld Bridge, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, drawn, engraved and published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1820.
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PR0526.jpg
Plate 27 from a Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints. 
The hills in the background are Saddleback; this view is probably in St John's in the Vale where there is a Sosgill Bridge. But that bridge is a stone arch. Could the stone arch be a later replacement? 
printed at bottom:-  "SOSKELD BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augt, 1, 1814 by Wm. Green."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.475
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photograph
BND93.jpg  View of river.
(taken 5.2.2007)  

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