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Millthrop Bridge, Millthrop
Millthrop Bridge
site name:-   Rawthey, River
locality:-   Millthrop
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD66139138
1Km square:-   SD6691
10Km square:-   SD69


photograph
BYK33.jpg (taken 31.5.2013)  
photograph
BYK34.jpg (taken 31.5.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63 3) 
placename:-  Millthrop 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:- 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
J5SD69SE.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Millthrop Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILLTHROP BRIDGE OVER RIVER RAWTHEY / / / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484639 / SD6614091372"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public road bridge over River Rawthey. Probably C17; altered. Mixed random rubble. Two segmental arches of unequal span (the north shorter) with rubble voussoirs, springing from a pier which has a triangular cutwater on the east (upstream) side and a similar cutwater on the west side carried up to form a triangular refuge to the deck. Rebuilt parapets."


photograph
BYK35.jpg  View of river.
(taken 31.5.2013)  

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