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Low Bridge, Braithwaite
Low Bridge
site name:-   Coledale Beck
locality:-   Braithwaite
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY23142358
1Km square:-   NY2323
10Km square:-   NY22

evidence:-   perhaps old print:- Fielding and Walton 1821 (plate 44) 
source data:-   Print, coloured aquatint, Grisedale Pike, Above Derwent, Cumberland, drawn by Theodore H A Fielding, published by R Ackermann, 101 Strand, London, 1821.
image  click to enlarge
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The pike peeps between the tree branches: I am inclined to think the bridge might be the one in Braithwaite village, on the Coledale Beck. 
Tipped in opposite p.272 in A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 1993.R566.44
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   possibly old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Braithwaite 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
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"BRAITHWAITE"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
BUH25.jpg  Inscribed stone leaning on the end of a parapet:-
"[S V L / H J / S T / 9F6]" (taken 28.3.2011)  

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