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packhorse bridge, Watendlath
Watendlath Bridge
site name:-   Watendlath Beck (?) 
locality:-   Watendlath
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY27531633
1Km square:-   NY2716
10Km square:-   NY21
references:-   Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)

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BNE42.jpg (taken 17.2.2007)  
photograph
BNE43.jpg  Narrow voussoirs.
(taken 17.2.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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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double line across a river; a bridge at Watendlath 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
image FD01P061, button  goto source
Page 61:-  "..."
"... The bridge is worthy of notice, and crosses the stream at its outlet from the lake or tarn, ..."
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Page 168:-  "..."
"Watendlath ... an extremely rude but picturesque bridge at its foot."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, packhorse bridge, Watendlath, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS450
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, packhorse bridge, Watendlath, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS556
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WATENDLATH PACKHORSE BRIDGE / / / BORROWDALE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72156 / NY2754016335"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Packhorse bridge. C18. Slate rubble. Narrow single-span segmental-arched hump-back bridge, with split-slate voussoirs, under low parapet."
evidence:-   old print:- Heywood 1906
source data:-   Print, halftone, Watendlath Tarn, Borrowdale, Cumberland, published by Abel Heywood and Son, 56-58 Oldham Street, Manchester, and by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, Ave Maria Lane, Paternoster Row, London, 1906.
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In a Guide to Keswick and its Vicinity in the Penny Guide Books series. 
printed at bottom:-  "Photo by / WATENDLATH TARN. / Abel Heywood &Son."
item:-  JandMN : 348.14
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bogg 1898
source data:-   Photograph, halftone print, Watendlath, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Edmund Bogg, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
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BGG171.jpg
Included on p.188 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. 
item:-  JandMN : 231.71
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evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35
placename:-  Stream of Lowdore
source data:-   Print, engraving, Watendlath, and the Stream of Lowdore, Cumberland, by Thomas Allom, engraved by J Sands, 1833.
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"Watendlath and the Stream of Lowdore"
item:-  JandMN : 96.2
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:-  
 22 foot span, 22 ins between parapets. Parapets added about 1902-07.

Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)
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