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Low Wood Bridge, Haverthwaite
Low Wood Bridge
site name:-   Leven, River
locality:-   Low Wood
civil parish:-   Haverthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD34528364
1Km square:-   SD3483
10Km square:-   SD38

photograph
BLU51.jpg (taken 7.4.2006)  
photograph
BLU52.jpg  Inscription:-
"C.C. LOW WOOD BRIDGE" (taken 7.4.2006)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Low Wood Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LOW WOOD BRIDGE / / B5278 / HAVERTHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421791 / SD3452683646"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge. C18 or early C19. Stone rubble. 3 elliptical arches with 2 round cutwaters to each side, which are roughcast, with caps. Parapet has plain coping. Probably associated with Low Wood ironworks, the site later taken over for gunpowder works, of which the Clock Tower works (q.v.) remain."
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