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Grinsdale Bridge, Beaumont
Grinsdale Bridge
site name:-   Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
civil parish:-   Beaumont (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway bridge
locality type:-   canal bridge (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY36435726
1Km square:-   NY3657
10Km square:-   NY35
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BNW18.jpg (taken 30.6.2007)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Grinsdale Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GRINSDALE BRIDGE / / / BEAUMONT / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / DL / 78201 / NY3643857269"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over canal, later railway bridge. 1819-23 for the Carlisle Canal; additions of 1853-4 for the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company. Squared and coursed red and calciferous sandstone; cast-iron central parapet on supporting wooden pillars. Plinth with rounded corners was originally the supporting structure for a canal drawbridge. Increased in height to convert this to a railway bridge, when the canal closed. When the railway closed in 1964, the wooden supports were placed under the bridge."


photograph
BNW19.jpg  View W.
(taken 30.6.2007)  
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BNW20.jpg  View E.
(taken 30.6.2007)  

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