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Castle Head Bridge, Grange-over-Sands
Castle Head Bridge
site name:-   Winster, River
locality:-   Castle Head Hill
civil parish:-   Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD42207968
1Km square:-   SD4279
10Km square:-   SD47
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 45 8) 
placename:-  Castle Head 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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Castle Head Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE / / LINDALE ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460528 / SD4220379678"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge with sluice gates. c1800. Limestone ashlar and rubble, with iron railings on north parapet. Has 2 segmental arches , with cutwaters projecting to north and south which have slots for sluice gates. The southern cutwaters are much taller than those to the north. The solid parapets have bands below their copings."
"HISTORY: John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the ironmaster, who owned the Castle Head estate, carried out a scheme of land drainage and improvement from 1778 onwards. He was also associated with the earliest (unexecuted) large-scale plan to enclose Morecambe Bay. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Marshall JD: Furness and the Industrial Revolution: Barrow-in-Furness: 1958-: 64)."

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