Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Langwathby Bridge
	site name:-	Eden, River
	locality:-	Langwathby
	parish	Langwathby parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		bridge
	coordinates:-	NY56593351
	10Km square:-	NY53
	1Km square	NY5633
		Langwathby Bridge -- Eden, River -- Langwathby -- Langwathby -- Cumbria / -- 26.8.2005
		Langwathby Bridge -- Eden, River -- Langwathby -- Langwathby -- Cumbria / -- 26.8.2005
	old map:-	OS County Series (Cmd 50)
		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.
		Longwathby Bridge
	placename:-	Longwathby Bridge
	date:-	1867=1868
	period:-	19th century, late; 1860s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) -- presumably relevant
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 130:-
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		At the village of Longwathby the tourist will cross the Eden by a good bridge of five arches, built in 1636. ...
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		road across the Eden, by a ford?
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	hearsay	An earlier stone bridge was built 1685, replacing a long ford, a lang wath, across the river here. The bridge was washed away in floods, March 1968.; this is a temporary replacement.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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