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Overbeck Bridge, Nether Wasdale
site name:-   Over Beck
locality:-   Wasdale
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY16760679
1Km square:-   NY1606
10Km square:-   NY10

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BYO40.jpg (taken 18.6.2013)  
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BYO41.jpg (taken 18.6.2013)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 74 14) 
placename:-  Overbeck 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:-   old painting:- Green 1790s-1820s
item:-  cattle; clouds
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Overbeck Bridge and Yewbarrow, Wasdale, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1800s-10s?
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item:-  Dove Cottage : 2005.27.26
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evidence:-   old painting:- Green 1790s-1820s (1822) 
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Great Gable and Wast Water from Overbeck Bridge, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822.
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item:-  Dove Cottage : 2010.57.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
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page 84:-  "..."
"The bridges on Nether and Over Becks are not of the safest, for, being narrow and shabbily fenced (that is picturesquely), some will not venture their carriages over them. The writer in company with a friend, passed in a gig, in 1809, that on Nether Beck, and would have found no hesitation in proceeding, but having arrived at Over Beck, a sight of Yew-barrow, Gable, and Scho-fell, from that place, was deemed sufficient."
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page 86:-  "Carriages may be left at Nether Beck Bridge, if the party think proper to proceed on foot to Over Beck, where Yew-barrow assumes its best form; and from thence to the head of the lake, or to Wastdale Head, just at the will of the tourist."
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 46) 
placename:-  Over Beck Bridge
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Over Beck Bridge in Wasdale, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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Yewbarrow behind. 
Plate 46 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "46"
printed at bottom:-  "OVER BECK BRIDGE IN WASDALE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.46
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evidence:-   perhaps old print:- Green 1815
item:-  cattle; clouds
source data:-   Print, coloured aquatint, Schofell on Wast Water, from Overbeck Bridge? Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1815.
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Plate 58 in Lake Scenery. 
printed at upper right:-  "58"
printed at bottom:-  "SCHOFELL on WAST WATER. / Published at Ambleside, June 1, 1815, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6646.54
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Overbeck Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Overbeck Bridge, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1849.
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"Overbeck Bridge Wast Water / Green vol 2. p 247."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.85
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evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Overbeck Bridge
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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"OVERBECK"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1819
placename:-  Over Beck Bridge
source data:-   Print, aquatint, Over Beck Bridge on Wast Water, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, 1819, published by R Lough and Co, Chronicle Office, Finkle Street, Kendal, and others, 1820.
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Tipped in opposite vol.2 p.247 of The Tourist's New Guide, by William Green. 
printed at bottom right, centre:-  "Vol.2, page 247, line 19. / OVER BECK BRIDGE on WAST WATER. / Published at Ambleside, Augt. 1. 1819, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1141.28
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BYO42.jpg  View of river.
(taken 18.6.2013)  

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BMB36.jpg (taken 11.5.2006)  
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