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Church Bridge, Bampton Grange
Church Bridge
site name:-   Lowther, River
locality:-   Bampton Grange
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY52071801
1Km square:-   NY5218
10Km square:-   NY51
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BJT75.jpg (taken 22.8.2005)  
photograph
BNK40.jpg  Bench mark on the bridge parapet.
(taken 23.3.2007)  

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
J5NY51NW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY51.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Lowther 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Bradley 1901
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, Near Bampton, Church Bridge, Bampton Grange, Westmorland, by Joseph Pennell, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.
image  click to enlarge
BRL182.jpg
On page 308 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. 
printed at lower centre:-  "Joseph Pennell"
printed at bottom:-  "Near Bampton."
item:-  JandMN : 464.82
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH BRIDGE / / BAMPTON GRANGE / BAMPTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74484 / NY5207018010"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. Late C18 or early C19. Dressed red sandstone. Segmental-arch with rusticated voussoirs, string course and chamfered parapet. Narrow with slight hump. Parapet coping is a C19 addition."

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