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Holmrook Hall Bridge, Irton with Santon
Holmrook Hall Bridge
site name:-   Irt, River
civil parish:-   Irton with Santon (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY08280013
1Km square:-   NY0800
10Km square:-   NY00
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-   possibly old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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double across a stream; bridge, over the Irt??? 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Holmbrook Hall Bridge
item:-  date stone (1635)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HOLMBROOK HALL BRIDGE / / / IRTON WITH SANTON / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351972 / NY0828900136"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Road bridge, carrying an approach drive to Holmbrook Hall over the River Irt. Late C18 but probably incorporating the substantial underwork of an earlier bridge to which a datestone of 1635 may refer. Ashlar sandstone abutments, arch lining and parapet wall copings, with red brick parapet walling. Single span bridge aligned north-south with depressed pointed arch with chamfered drip mould above. Shallow parapet walls with ashlar pitchback copings do not follow profile of arch below, but incorporate a flattened central part. Datestone bearing inscription 'W. 1635 M.' below central parapet on west side."

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