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packhorse bridge, Crook
site name:-   Winster, River
civil parish:-   Crook (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD41259429
1Km square:-   SD4194
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)


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CCH52.jpg (taken 4.2.2015)  
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CCH53.jpg (taken 4.2.2015)  

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.
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J5SD49SW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"PACK HORSE BRIDGE BESIDE A5074 A QUARTER OF A MILE NORTH WEST OF HIGH MILL HOUSE / / / CROOK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76397 / SD4125494296"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Pack Horse bridge. Probably C17. Approx. 4' wide with rough slate stone voussoirs and rubble core. No parapets. Now partly derelict and leads nowhere."

:-  
8 ft span, 72 ins wide, no parapets.

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

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