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Duddon Bridge, Broughton West
Duddon Bridge
site name:-   Duddon, River
locality:-   Duddon Bridge
civil parish:-   Broughton West (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Millom Without (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD19928818
1Km square:-   SD1988
10Km square:-   SD18

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BJR56.jpg (taken 5.8.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 86 15) 
placename:-  Duddon 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:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Sax9SD18.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Keer 1605
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605 edition perhaps 1676.
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double line across a stream; bridge; on county boundary 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.110
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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SP11SD28.jpg
double line across the Duddon 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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JAN3SD28.jpg
Double line crossing the stream; at county boundary. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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SAN2Cm.jpg
double line over a stream; bridge, across county boundary 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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SEL9.jpg
two lines cross a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.89
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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SEL7.jpg
two lines cross a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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Double line over a stream, at Broughton. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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SMP2SDE.jpg
Bridge, over the Duddon. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   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.
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BO18SD18.jpg
road across the Duddon 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Duddon Bridge
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Duddon Bridge"
double line across a river; a bridge 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Dudden Bridge
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
image CAM2P143, button  goto source
Page 143:-  "Broughton, ... Near this place an handsome bridge was built at the expence of the hundred over the river Duddon, which divides the counties of Lancaster and Cumberland."
evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Duddon Bridge
source data:-   Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Duddon Br."
bridge 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Dudden Bridge
source data:-   Map, Lancashire, scale about 18 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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GRA1La.jpg
"Dudden Br"
bridge 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.6
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Dudden Bridge
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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Lw18.jpg
"Dudden Bridge 282"
bridge; distance from London 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Duddon Bridge
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.
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WL13.jpg
"Duddon Br."
bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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Implied by a road across the stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Duddon Bridge
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Duddon Br."
road crosses stream 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Duddon Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"DUDDON BRIDGE (THAT PART IN BROUGHTON WEST CP) / / A595 / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75812 / SD1992088166"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"DUDDON BRIDGE (THAT PART IN MILLOM WITHOUT) / / A 595 / MILLOM WITHOUT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76349 / SD1992988184"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over River Duddon. Probably C18. Stone rubble. 3 segmental arches with thin voussoirs. Triangular cutwaters to both sides. Low plain parapets, probably renewed. 6m wide. Part of this item is in Millom Without C.P."
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