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bridge, Barrow-in-Furness
site name:-   Mill Beck (4)
Street:-   Abbey Approach
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD21857197
1Km square:-   SD2171
10Km square:-   SD27
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BRIDGE OVER MILL BECK AND ATTACHED GATEWAY AT ABBEY DALE / / ABBEY APPROACH / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388370 / SD2185471975"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge and attached gateway. c1873 gateway; the bridge probably earlier C19. Red sandstone rubble; wrought-iron gates. The bridge has a single-span round arch of dressed voussoirs; parapet walls splay and terminate in simple end piers except at link with the embankment wall to Abbey Dale (qv); chamfered ashlar copings. Gateway: double gates set across the bridge carriageway have spiked dog bars with cross bracing and curved top rails with barbed finials. Iron posts with matching finials; radial side panels overhang bridge parapet. Included for group value."

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