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Cowgill Bridge, Dent
Cowgill Bridge
site name:-   Cowgill Beck
locality:-   Cowgill
locality:-   Dentdale
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD75628693
1Km square:-   SD7586
10Km square:-   SD78


photograph
BMG65.jpg (taken 16.6.2006)  
photograph
BMG66.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"THIS BRIDGE REPERED AT THE CHARG OF TH WEST RIDING A.D.1702" (taken 16.6.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 64 15) 
placename:-  Cowgill 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.
"Cowgill Bridge"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Cowgill Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"COWGILL BRIDGE / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484271 / SD7562986936"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public road bridge over River Dee. Dated 1702 on north parapet. Coursed sandstone rubble with low-pitched parapet copings. Low segmental arch with rubble voussoirs and arch-bands; parapets splayed outwards at west end. The north parapet incorporates a square datestone inscribed: "THIS / BRIDG REPER / ED. AT THE / CHARGE OF THE / WEST RIDING / A.D.1702"."

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