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Barth Bridge, Dent
Barth Bridge
site name:-   Dee, River
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD69478790
1Km square:-   SD6987
10Km square:-   SD68


photograph
BJW12.jpg (taken 23.9.2005)  
photograph
BJW13.jpg (taken 23.9.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 64 9) 
placename:-  Barth 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:-  Barth Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARTH BRIDGE / / BARTH LANE / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484234 / SD6947887913"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public road bridge over River Dee, with attached causeway crossing meadow to south. Late C18. Coursed sandstone rubble. The bridge has a single segmental arch with rubble voussoirs, a squinch at the north-west corner and slightly humped parapets with chiselled rounded coping. The parapets continue to the south along a straight causeway which has a series of low segmental-arched flood sluices in rectangular panels."

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