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Blind Beck Bridge, Kendal
Blind Beck Bridge
site name:-   Blind Beck (3)
Street:-   Kirkland
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge (probably now a culvert) 
coordinates:-   SD51529221
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59


photograph
CEL08.jpg (taken 29.12.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) 
placename:-  Blindbeck 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:- Speed 1611
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image  click to enlarge
SP14Mk.jpg
double line over the Blind Beck in Kirkland 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770
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
J55192L.jpg
bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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