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Bardsea Monument, Bardsea
Bardsea Monument
locality:-   Bardsea Park
locality:-   Ulverston Golf Club
locality:-   Bardsea
civil parish:-   Urswick (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   monument
coordinates:-   SD29737513
1Km square:-   SD2975
10Km square:-   SD27


photograph
BRD88.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 12) 
placename:-  Bardsea Monument
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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARDSEA MONUMENT IN GROUNDS OF ULVERSTON GOLF CLUB / / / PENNINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75881 / SD2973575132"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Monument. 1792. For W. Braddyll. Limestone rubble with some ashlar and brick. Triangular plan structure on round base has diagonal buttresses. Corbelled parapet with flat coping and finials, cupola with lantern. Each face has 4-centred relieving arch of ashlar and brick with round-headed niche containing urn, that to north-west missing, base inscribed: "POSUIT WB". Urns to other sides record Christopher Wilson and Sarah, John and Jane Gale, relations of William Braddyll; that to north-east also records erection of monument. A prominent landmark on the Furness peninsula."

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