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Middle Bridge, Hesket
Middle Bridge
site name:-   Petteril, River
locality:-   Brockleymoor
locality:-   Plumpton
civil parish:-   Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY48953689
1Km square:-   NY4836
10Km square:-   NY43
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BYX92.jpg (taken 2.8.2013)  
photograph
BYX94.jpg  Date:-
"1866" (taken 2.8.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY43NE.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge at Brocklemoor 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Plumpton Middle 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.
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BEL9NY43.jpg
"PLUMPTON MIDDLE"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Middle Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MIDDLE BRIDGE / / / HESKET / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73878 / NY4895136891"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. Dated 1855 on parapet. Red sandstone. Single segmental arch and small overflow channel. Rusticated voussoirs under string course and solid parapets. Overflow channel has 2 vaulted passages."


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BYX95.jpg  View of river.
(taken 2.8.2013)  


photograph
BYX93.jpg  Overflow chennel.
(taken 2.8.2013)  

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