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| Middle Gelt Bridge, Hayton | ||
| Middle Gelt Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Gelt, River | |
| civil parish:- | Hayton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | NY53235735 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5357 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY55 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 13) placename:- Middle Gelt Bridge placename:- Gelt Bridge, Middle |
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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 map:- Bell 1892 placename:- Gelt Middle Bridge |
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| 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. BEL9NY55.jpg "GELT MIDDLE" bridge symbol Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges item:- Carlisle Library : Map 38 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Middle Gelt Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MIDDLE GELT BRIDGE / / / HAYTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 78051 / NY5324757324" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Railway bridge over River Gelt. Dated 1832-35 for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, inscribed on panel in abutment arch GELT BRIDGE/FRANCIS GILES CIVIL ENGINEER/JOHN MCKAY BUILDER (dates in Roman numerals), similar Latin inscription in opposite abutment. Channelled rusticated red sandstone ashlar, smooth voussoirs with V-jointsand iron railing parapet. 3 large skew arches on 2 piers. One of the earliest and largest skew arched bridges in the country." |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- |
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| source data:- | Painting, watercolour, Middle Gelt Bridge, Hayton, Cumberland, by Matthew Ellis Nutter,
1840s-50s. click to enlargePR1312.jpg View of Middle Gelt Bridge, a single span stone bridge, with a viaduct (Gelt Bridge) towering above it. Two women stand on the bridge, conversing. To right of composition, behind a tall tree, there stands a whitewashed building with ladders and implements leaning against its wall. To left of composition two small whitewashed houses standing on the bank of the river are visible through the arches of the viaduct. item:- Tullie House Museum : 1986.100.4 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- |
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| source data:- | Drawing, Gelt Bridge Looking up the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton,
Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835. click to enlargePR1014.jpg An unfinished viaduct, upon which work groups of construction workers, towers above the river of the foreground which is spanned by a single span stone bridge upon which two women stand conversing. A third woman stands leaning on the wooden fence which leads to the bridge. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks; a whitewashed house stands to extreme right amongst the trees. numbered & inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom left:- "No 17 Gelt Bridge. Looking up the River JWC. 1835" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.15 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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