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Westlinton Bridge, Westlinton
Westlinton Bridge
site name:-   Lyne, River
locality:-   Westlinton
civil parish:-   Westlinton (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Arthuret (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   boundary mark
locality type:-   parish boundary mark
coordinates:-   NY39286465
1Km square:-   NY3964
10Km square:-   NY36


photograph
BMP93.jpg (taken 15.9.2006)  
photograph
BMP94.jpg  On the east face:-
"CEMENT POINTED 1891" (taken 15.9.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 10 15) 
placename:-  Westlinton 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:- 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.
image
D4NY36SE.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge at Westlinton 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Westlinton Bridge
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
image
BEL9NY36.jpg
"WESTLINTON"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Westlington Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WESTLINGTON BRIDGE / / / WESTLINTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77981 / NY3928764644"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Road bridge. Probably 1793 for the Carlisle-Longtown Turnpike. Red sandstone ashlar. 2 segmental arches with central pier having pointed cutwaters. Abutments have chamfered plinth and cylinderical end piers. String course with chamfered coped parapet. Abutment inscription CEMENT POINTED 1891. This bridge is partly in Arthuret CP."


photograph
BMP95.jpg  Access steps, NE pier.
(taken 15.9.2006)  

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