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Nether Bridge, Kendal | ||
Nether Bridge | ||
site name:- | Kent, River | |
locality:- | Kendal | |
civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | bridge | |
coordinates:- | SD51669193 | |
1Km square:- | SD5191 | |
10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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![]() BJS42.jpg From downstream. (taken 14.8.2005) ![]() BJS43.jpg (taken 14.8.2005) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) placename:- Nether Bridge |
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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. |
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evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 placename:- Neither Bridge |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and
Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley,
London, 1611-12.![]() SP14Mk.jpg "9 Neither Bridge" bridge of 3 arches over the Kent item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38) placename:- Neither Bridge |
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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.![]() OG38m252.jpg In mile 256, Westmoreland. A turning into Kendal crosses the river at:- "Neither bridg" item:- JandMN : 21 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert
Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John
Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.![]() MD10SD59.jpg Road and river intersect. item:- JandMN : 24 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 93) placename:- Nether Bridge |
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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.![]() B093m252.jpg At mile 256+. item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.100 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | possibly old map:- Badeslade 1742 placename:- |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from
London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text,
by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William
Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.![]() BD12.jpg "" double line across a stream item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- Simpson 1746 |
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source data:- | Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as
'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller
...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.![]() Page 1023:- "..." "Kendal, called also Kirkby Candale, i.e. a Church in the Valley upon the River Can, over which it has two Bridges of Stone, and one of Wood, ..." |
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evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 placename:- Nether Bridge |
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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.![]() BO18SD49.jpg "Nether Bridge" road across the Kent item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 placename:- Nether Bridge |
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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.![]() J55191U.jpg "Nether Br" bridge item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Nether Bridge |
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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.![]() J5SD59SW.jpg "Nether Bridge" double line, road, across a stream; bridge item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by
William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in
London, 1778 to 1821.![]() Page 177:- "... The entrance [to Kendal] from the south is by another bridge, which makes a short awkward turn into the suburbs, but after that, the street opens well, and the town has a chearful appearance. ..." |
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evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Nether Bridge |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.![]() CY24SD59.jpg "Nether Br" road across a stream; bridge over the Kent item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Cooper 1808 |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale
about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.![]() COP4.jpg road across stream; bridge? item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 |
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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.![]() OT02SD59.jpg Implied by a road across the Kent. item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Bradley 1901 |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured lithograph, Kendal, Westmorland, by Joseph Pennell, published by
Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.![]() BRL177.jpg The bridge is Nether Bridge. On page 298 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. printed at bottom:- "Kendal." item:- JandMN : 464.77 Image © see bottom of page |
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hearsay:- |
In 1376, Edward II made a grant of pontage for three years, the right to charge tolls,
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"the good men of Kirkeby in Kendal for three years in aid of their bridge which is
broken down ..." |
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The signs of an old packhorse bridge on the downstream side are visible under the
arches; the middle section was an addition in 1722 when the route was turnpiked; the
upstream side dates from 1908. |
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