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Blackpool Gate Bridge, Bewcastle
Blackpool Gate Bridge
Blackpoolgate Bridge
site name:-   Black Lyne
locality:-   Blackpool Gate
civil parish:-   Bewcastle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY53257774
1Km square:-   NY5377
10Km square:-   NY57


photograph
BSE57.jpg (taken 19.2.2010)  
photograph
BSE58.jpg  Plaque:-
"BLACKPOOL GATE BRIDGE / A. DODSON 1892 ESQ[R] PROMOTER / [ ]MA[ ]ELL SURVEYOR / [ Y]LE BUILDER" (taken 19.2.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 4 13) 
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.
"Ford"
at Black Pool 
and a corresponding road layout 

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Blackpoolgate 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.
image
BEL9NY57.jpg
"BLACKPOOLGATE"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

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