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Blencow Bridge, Little Blencow
Blencow Bridge
site name:-   Petteril, River
locality:-   Little Blencow
civil parish:-   Dacre (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY45373273
1Km square:-   NY4532
10Km square:-   NY43
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BLP21.jpg (taken 4.2.2006)  
photograph
CDM50.jpg  Inscription:-
"P / [ ]" (taken 3.7.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Little Blencow 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
BEL9NY43.jpg
"LITTLE BLENCOW"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Blencow Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLENCOW BRIDGE / / / DACRE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73781 / NY4537332733"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. Early C19. Dressed red sandstone. 2 segmental arches with recessed voussoirs, on central splayed cutwaters, the solid chamfered parapet with central pedestrian refuges and ending in square piers under shaped caps. Central inscription D.P.C. (Dacre Parish Council). This bridge lies partly in Greystoke C.P."


photograph
BLP20.jpg (taken 4.2.2006)  

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