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Dorothy Bridge, Orton S
Dorothy Bridge
site name:-   Bretherdale Beck
civil parish:-   Orton S (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY59930533
1Km square:-   NY5905
10Km square:-   NY50
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
CGR02.jpg (taken 6.10.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 28 7) 
placename:-  Dorothy 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.

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
BO18NY50.jpg
road across Bretherdale Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
CGR03.jpg  View of river.
(taken 6.10.2017)  

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