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Strand Bridge, Lower Holker
Strand Bridge
civil parish:-   Lower Holker (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD35277538
1Km square:-   SD3575
10Km square:-   SD37
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BZA67.jpg  South face, toward marsh.
(taken 9.8.2013)  
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BZA68.jpg  North Face, toward the sea, with added structures.
(taken 9.8.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 10) 
placename:-  Strand 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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Strand Bridge
item:-  date stone (1797)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STRAND BRIDGE / / / LOWER HOLKER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77027 / SD3527175388"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over drainage ditch. Datestone inscribed: 1797, with later addition. Dressed stone. Curved parapets with end piers and flat bands. North side has later segmental arched addition partly covering datestone. South side has low segmental arch. Associated with drainage and enclosure of land in the parish in the late C18."


photograph
BZA86.jpg  North side.
(taken 9.8.2013)  
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BZA71.jpg  Parapet, south side.
(taken 9.8.2013)  
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BZA69.jpg  Drain on marsh side, to south.
(taken 9.8.2013)  
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BZA70.jpg  Drain on sea side, to north.
(taken 9.8.2013)  

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