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Abbot Holme Bridge, Abbot Holme
Abbot Holme Bridge
site name:-   Dee, River
locality:-   Abbot Holme
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD64899082
1Km square:-   SD6490
10Km square:-   SD69


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BJW07.jpg (taken 23.9.2005)  
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CCD78.jpg (taken 5.12.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63) 
placename:-  Amit Holme 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.
"Amit Holme Bridge"

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63 3) 
placename:-  Abbot Holme 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:-  Abbot Holme Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ABBOT HOLME BRIDGE / / ABBOT HOLME / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 484496 / SD6488890827"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public road bridge over River Rawthey. Probably C17; altered. Roughly-coursed rubble with stone slate bands. Straight and narrow (approx. 2 metres). One high segmental arch, with long rubble voussoirs, 4 stone corbels near the apex on the north side and a 2-course stone slate arch-band which runs out horizontally at approximately half-height. Slightly humped deck protected by parapets which have renewed coping of large stone blocks. Wider abutments to both ends, battered and stepped on the south side. Forms group with Abbot Holme House (east) (qv)."


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CCD76.jpg  View of river.
(taken 5.12.2014)  
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CCD77.jpg  View of river.
(taken 5.12.2014)  


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CCD75.jpg (taken 5.12.2014)  
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CCD79.jpg  ?boundary or something marker:-
"WR" (taken 5.12.2014)  

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