button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Gelt Bridge, Hayton
Gelt Bridge
Gelt Viaduct
site name:-   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
site name:-   Gelt, River
locality:-   Middle Gelt Bridge
civil parish:-   Hayton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway viaduct
locality type:-   viaduct
coordinates:-   NY53255732
1Km square:-   NY5357
10Km square:-   NY55

photograph
BOD69.jpg (taken 7.9.2007)  
photograph
BOD67.jpg (taken 7.9.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 13) 
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.
image  click to enlarge
CSRY0010.jpg
"Middle Gelt Bridge / Viaduct"
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 FD01P119, button  goto source
Page 119:-  "... The Railway between Carlisle and Newcastle crosses the water [River Gelt at Middle Gelt Bridge] and ravine by a grand bridge of three arches, about eighty feet in height, springing from rustic piers, which harmonise with the scenery in the most effective manner."
evidence:-   old painting:- 
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Middle Gelt Bridge, Hayton, Cumberland, by Matthew Ellis Nutter, 1840s-50s.
image  click to enlarge
PR1312.jpg
View of Middle Gelt Bridge, a single span stone bridge, with a viaduct (Gelt Bridge) towering above it. Two women stand on the bridge, conversing. To right of composition, behind a tall tree, there stands a whitewashed building with ladders and implements leaning against its wall. To left of composition two small whitewashed houses standing on the bank of the river are visible through the arches of the viaduct. 
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1986.100.4
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Gelt Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, Gelt Bridge, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
image  click to enlarge
PR1013.jpg
Scene of construction workers building a viaduct above a river; wooden scaffolds support two of the arches and provide a platform halfway up the structure. To left of foreground, two figures converse beside a pile of blocks of masonry. A small stone building and a pile of uncut logs stand beside the river, the far bank of which is heavily wooded. 
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company. 
inscribed & numbered & initialled &dated at bottom left:-  "Gelt Bridge No 16 JWC. 1835"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.14
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Gelt Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, Gelt Bridge Looking up the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
image  click to enlarge
PR1014.jpg
An unfinished viaduct, upon which work groups of construction workers, towers above the river of the foreground which is spanned by a single span stone bridge upon which two women stand conversing. A third woman stands leaning on the wooden fence which leads to the bridge. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks; a whitewashed house stands to extreme right amongst the trees. 
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company. 
numbered & inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom left:-  "No 17 Gelt Bridge. Looking up the River JWC. 1835"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.15
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Gelt Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, Gelt Bridge Looking Down the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
image  click to enlarge
PR1016.jpg
An unfinished viaduct viaduct towers above a river which fills the foreground and beside which a single fisherman sits. A small stone building stands on the river's right bank. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks; a flock of birds rise overhead. 
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company. 
numbered & inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom left:-  "No 18 Gelt Bridge looking down the River JWC 1835"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.16
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Gelt Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, Gelt Bridge From the Road Looking Down the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
image  click to enlarge
PR1015.jpg
Scene of construction workers building a viaduct above a river. To left of foreground, beside the river, lies a pile of uncut logs and a small stone building. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks. 
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company. 
numbered & inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom left:-  "No 19. Gelt Bridge from the Road looking down the River JWC. 1835"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.17
Image © Tullie House Museum

photograph
CBG49.jpg  Skew stonework.
(taken 28.7.2014)  
photograph
BOD68.jpg  Plaque, civil engineer, Francis Giles, builder, John McKay, 1830-32.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
photograph
BOD70.jpg  Plaque, civil engineer, Francis Giles, builder, John McKay, 1830-32.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.