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Bell Bridge, Sebergham
Bell Bridge
site name:-   Caldew, River
civil parish:-   Sebergham (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY36604299
1Km square:-   NY3642
10Km square:-   NY34


photograph
BOI05.jpg (taken 30.10.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 38 2) 
placename:-  Bell 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) 
placename:-  Bell Bridge
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
D4NY34SE.jpg
"Bell Br."
double line across a river; a bridge on the Caldew 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Bell Bridge
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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BEL9NY34.jpg
"BELL BRIDGE"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bell Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BELL BRIDGE / / / SEBERGHAM / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72459 / NY3659543000"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. 1772 with C19 repairs. Coursed red sandstone. Hump-back bridge of single-span segmental arch under solid parapet with chamfered coping. Named after the Bell family of Bell-bridge Farmhouse and replaced C17 bridge washed away in a flood of 1771. See Parson and White's Directory of Cumberland &Westmorland, 1829, p380."


photograph
BOI06.jpg  View of river.
(taken 30.10.2007)  

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