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bridge, Rydal (4)
site name:-   Rydal Beck
site name:-   Low Fall
site name:-   Rydal Hall
locality:-   Rydal
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY36610637
1Km square:-   NY3606
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BPU33.jpg (taken 31.10.2008)  courtesy of Rydal Hall

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 18) 
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Lower Fall at Rydal, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810.
image  click to enlarge
GN1218.jpg
Plate 18 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "18"
printed at bottom:-  "LOWER FALL AT RYDAL. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.18
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-  
This is the bridge above the Low Fall, built by Sir Daniel Fleming, 1692.

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