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bridge, Ings
site name:-   Gowan, River
locality:-   Ings
civil parish:-   Hugill (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD44579861
1Km square:-   SD4498
10Km square:-   SD49


photograph
BXT16.jpg (taken 12.12.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 5) 
placename:-  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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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OG96m005.jpg
In mile 6, Westmoreland. 
Road crosses a river at:-  "a Stone bridg and brook"
but no bridge drawn. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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.
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BO18SD39.jpg
road across the Gowan 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

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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J5SD49NW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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