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| Bongate Weir, Appleby | ||
| Bongate Weir | ||
| site name:- | Eden, River | |
| locality:- | Bongate | |
| locality:- | Appleby | |
| civil parish:- | Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | weir | |
| coordinates:- | NY688197 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6819 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY61 | |
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 BOI70.jpg (taken 10.11.2007)  BOI71.jpg (taken 10.11.2007) |
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| Said to have been begun by the Romans, to create a deep place so that boats could
cross. Later it was the mill dam for Bongate Mill. |
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