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bridge, Casterton (2)
site name:-   Casterton Beck
locality:-   Casterton Woods
locality:-   Casterton
civil parish:-   Casterton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD62177971
1Km square:-   SD6279
10Km square:-   SD67


photograph
CFY42.jpg (taken 24.3.2017)  
photograph
CFY41.jpg (taken 24.3.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47 8) 
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.
Over Mill Gill, just N of the vegetable gardens of Casterton Hall. 

evidence:-   old print:- Johnson c1900
source data:-   Print, engraving, In Casterton Woods, a footbridge, Westmorland, published by Thomas Johnson, 30 Church Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, about 1900.
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Probably over Mill Gill. The text says 'From the gardener's cottage a path descends to a picturesque Alpine bridge, which our artist has thought worth sketching. ...' 
On p.22 in The Gossiping Guide to Kirkby Lonsdale. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1612.A9
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photograph
CFY43.jpg  View of river.
Casterton Woods,
(taken )  
photograph
CFY44.jpg  View of river.
Casterton Woods,
(taken )  

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