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Crookdale Bridge, Fawcett Forest
Crookdale Bridge
Crookgill Bridge
site name:-   Crookdale Beck
locality:-   Hause Foot
civil parish:-   Fawcett Forest (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY55020554
1Km square:-   NY5505
10Km square:-   NY50


photograph
BJQ39.jpg (taken 22.7.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, continuation of the Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
image
OG38m262.jpg
In mile 265, Westmorland. 
Road crosses a:-  "bridge"
drawn over a river. 
item:-  JandMN : 21
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 94) 
source data:-   Strip maps, uncoloured engravings, road maps, The Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Lancashire and Westmorland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.
image
B094m262.jpg
A bridge between mile 265 and 266. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.100
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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
J5NY50NW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY50.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Crookdale Beck 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Crookdale Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROOKDALE BRIDGE / / / FAWCETT FOREST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75635 / NY5502005552"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over Crookdale Beck. Probably C18. Stone rubble. Segmental arch with thin irregular voussoirs. Low parapets, collapsed to north ends. Roadway approx 3.5m wide. On route of Heron Syke to Eamont Bridge turnpike road, 1756, replaced by new route over Shap Fell, c1826."

hearsay:-  
Probably 18th century, on the Heron Syke to Eamont Bridge turnpike, 1756.

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