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Pasture Beck Bridge, Hartsop
Pasture Beck Bridge
Walker Bridge
site name:-   Pasture Beck
locality:-   Hartsop
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY41031295
1Km square:-   NY4112
10Km square:-   NY41


photograph
BJS74.jpg (taken 17.8.2005)  
photograph
BJS75.jpg  Underneath, it's possible to see widening.
(taken 17.8.2005)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Pasture Beck Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"PASTURE BECK BRIDGE / / / PATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 452392 / NY4103312953"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"C17 packhorse bridge at the east end of the hamlet. Single round arch of wedge-shaped stones without a parapet. Widened, but still used only for pedestrians. For group notes see General group description under Low Hartsop."

evidence:-   probably old print:- Green 1809
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Bridge at Hartsope, probably Pasture Beck Bridge, Hartsop, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
image  click to enlarge
GN0366.jpg
Plate 66 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. 
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:-  "Number 66. Hartsope, which is a village, consists of fourteen or fifteen houses, and is seven miles from Ambleside on the road to Patterdale over Kirkstone. It is near this place that the carriage and horse roads divide, meeting again at Goldrill Bridge near the Inn. ..."
printed at bottom:-  "BRIDGE AT HARTSOPE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6637.66
Image © see bottom of page

:-  
Sometimes called Walker Bridge. 15 foot span, widened to 11 ft, no parapets.

Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)

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