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Low Stockgill Bridge, Ambleside
Low Stockgill Bridge
site name:-   Stock Ghyll
Street:-   Rydal Road
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY37590464
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BQV85.jpg (taken 20.6.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 6) 
placename:-  Low Stockgill Bridge
placename:-  Stockgill Bridge, Low
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.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series
placename:-  Low Stockgill Bridge
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.
"Low Stockgill Bridge"

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
image
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road across the Stock Ghyll 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
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double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   possibly old drawing:- 
placename:-  Stockbridge
source data:-   Drawing, Stockbridge, Ambleside, Westmorland, by William Havell, 1800s-10s.
image  click to enlarge
PR1398.jpg
View of bridge over river with buildings with trees either side and hills in background. One of a set of twenty views of the lake district executed by the artist on one sheet of paper. 
at bottom:-  "Stockbridge Ambleside"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.42
Image © Tullie House Museum

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