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Bleacrag Bridge, Witherslack
Bleacrag Bridge
Blaycrag Bridge
site name:-   Winster, River
civil parish:-   Witherslack (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Upper Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   parish boundary feature
locality type:-   boundary stone
locality type:-   county boundary mark (old) 
coordinates:-   SD42258376
1Km square:-   SD4283
10Km square:-   SD48
old boundary
locality:-   Westmorland boundary
locality:-   Lancashire boundary


photograph
BLM84.jpg (taken 31.12.2005)  
photograph
BLM83.jpg  Plaque:-
"Blaycrag Bridge River Winster LANCASHIRE WESTMORLAND [F] 1816 B" and a cut bench mark, which the Ordnance Survey have inscribed through the existing inscription like vandals.
(taken 31.12.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 41 12) 
placename:-  Bleacrag 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:-   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
BO18SD37.jpg
road across the Winster 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD48SW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bleacrag Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLEACRAG BRIDGE / / BLEACRAG ROAD / WITHERSLACK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77135 / SD4225883770"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLEACRAG BRIDGE (THAT PART IN UPPER ALLITHWAITE) / / HOLME ROAD / UPPER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 422226 / SD4225883771"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over river Winster. Probably 1816. Stone rubble. Elliptical arch and straight parapets with limestone coping. Plaque to south side of north parapet marking county boundary has inscription: "BLAYCRAG BRIDGE/RIVER WINSTER/ LANCASHIRE : WESTMORLAND/ F 1816 B/88.6 : 59.6/CARTMEL : BEETHAM". Bench mark added. Part of this bridge is in Upper Allithwaite C.P. ..."

story:-  
Here Richard Taylor murdered Richard Kilner, and was hanged for it on Gallows Hill:-
"Richard Taylor was buryed whoe suffered the same day at Blakeragge bridge end for murthering wilfully Rich. Kilner of Witherslack. April 1576."

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