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| Folly Bridge, Borrowdale | ||
| Folly Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Derwent, River | |
| locality:- | Borrowdale | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | NY25061387 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2513 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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 CCZ84.jpg (taken 13.5.2015)  CCZ87.jpg Plaque:- "This Bridge [ s] built / at the Expence of John / Braithwaite of Seatollor / in the Year of our Lord / 178[1] / By Thomas Hayton and / Richard Bowness / I [cou]nt th[i ] Folly [ ] ha[ ]e done / [ ]" (taken 13.5.2015) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 13) placename:- Folly Bridge |
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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 text:- Green 1810 placename:- Folly Bridge |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto sourcepage 79:- "... Folly Bridge, which is half a mile from Rosthwaite." "On a stone erected near this bridge, is engraved," ""I count it folly you have done, As you have neither wife nor son."" "to which, by way of answer, the following lines are added:" ""Daughter I have, God give her grace, And heaven be her seating place."" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1810 (plate 43) placename:- Folly Bridge |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Folly Bridge in Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810. click to enlargeGN1243.jpg Plate 43 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. printed at top right:- "43" printed at bottom:- "FOLLY BRIDGE IN BORROWDALE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810." watermark:- "J WHATMAN / 1813" item:- Armitt Library : A6641.43 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Folly Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FOLLY BRIDGE / / / BORROWDALE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72144 / NY2506013872" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Footbridge. Inscribed on stone set against east face THIS BRIDGE WAS BUILT AT THE EXPENCE OF JOHN BRAITHWAITE OF SEATOLLOR IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1781 BY THOMAS HAYTON AND RICHARD BOWNESS; I COUNT THIS FOLLY YOU HAVE DONE, AS YOU HAVE NEITHER WIFE NOR SON, DAUGHTER I HAVE, GOD GIVE HER GRACE AND HEAVEN FOR HER RESTING PLACE. Slate rubble. Narrow single-span humped-back bridge, with slate voussoirs under solid parapet with slab coping. Cost L25 to build." |
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 BPQ39.jpg View of river. (taken 26.2.2007)  CCZ88.jpg View of river. (taken 13.5.2015) |
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 CCZ85.jpg (taken 13.5.2015)  CCZ86.jpg (taken 13.5.2015)  BPQ38.jpg (taken 24.8.2008) |
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 CCZ89.jpg A notice nearby. (taken 13.5.2015) |
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| The majority apparently ignoring the will of the minority |
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| hearsay:- |
Over a tributary to the River Derwent, behind Mountain View. A folly:- |
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| "This bridge was built at the / expence of John Braithwaite / of Seatoller in the Year
of / our Lord 1781. / By Thomas Hayton and / Richard Bowness. / I count this folly
You have done / As you have neither Wife nor Son / Daughter I have, God give her Grace
/ And I Heaven for her Resting place." |
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