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Stonethwaite Bridge, Stonethwaite
Stonethwaite Bridge
site name:-   Stonethwaite Beck
locality:-   Stonethwaite
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   footbridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY26331383
1Km square:-   NY2613
10Km square:-   NY21

photograph
BOF74.jpg (taken 5.10.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 14) 
placename:-  Stonethwaite 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 print:- Green 1809
placename:-  Stonethwaite Bridge
source data:-   Print, Stonethwaite Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, drawn and engraved by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1809.
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A single span stone bridge spans a shallow rocky stream either bank of which is fringed with trees. Fells rise beyond. 
printed at bottom centre:-  "STONETHWAITE BRIDGE. Published Ambleside. Augst 1st 1809 by W. Green."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.92.3
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1815
placename:-  Stonethwaite Bridge
source data:-   Print, coloured aquatint, Stonethwaite Bridge, Stonethwaite, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1815.
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Plate 45 in Lake Scenery. 
printed at upper right:-  "45"
printed at bottom:-  "STONETHWAITE BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside, June 1, 1815, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6646.42
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Stonethwaite Bridge
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 FD01P068, button  goto source
Page 68:-  "..."
"... Stonethwaite Bridge. This makes a picturesque subject, the village composing the middle ground, and the Hay Stacks the distance; ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1809
placename:-  Stonethwaite Bridge
item:-  eagle
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Stonethwaite Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
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Plate 43 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. 
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:-  "Number 43. The remote mountain in this view is Eagle Crag, ... The river spanned by Stonethwaite Bridge, is that branch of the Derwent which runs from the summit of the Stake; the division of Langdale and Borrowdale, and of Westmorland and Cumberland."
printed at bottom:-  "STONETHWAITE BRIDGE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6637.43
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