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Keekle Low Bridge, Keekle
Keekle Low Bridge
site name:-   Keekle, River
locality:-   Keekle
civil parish:-   Weddicar (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Cleator Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY00511618
1Km square:-   NY0016
10Km square:-   NY01


photograph
BPL48.jpg (taken 15.7.2008)  
photograph
BPL49.jpg (taken 15.7.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 7) 
placename:-  High Keekle Bridge
placename:-  Keekle Bridge, High
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:-   probably old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
image
BO18NX91.jpg
road across the Keekle 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Keekle Low 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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BEL9NY01.jpg
"KEEKLE LOW"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
BPL50.jpg  View of river.
(taken 15.7.2008)  

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