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Rack Bridge, Solport
Rack Bridge
site name:-   Lyne, River
civil parish:-   Solport (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Stapleton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY47537071
1Km square:-   NY4770
10Km square:-   NY47


photograph
BQJ91.jpg (taken 11.4.2009)  
photograph
BQJ92.jpg (taken 11.4.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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.
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D4NY47SE.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge over the Line 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Rack 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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BEL9NY47.jpg
"RACK"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
BQJ93.jpg  View of river.
(taken 11.4.2009)  

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