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Peasey Bridge, Crooklands
Peasey Bridge
site name:-   Peasey Beck
locality:-   Crooklands
civil parish:-   Preston Patrick (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD53488350
1Km square:-   SD5383
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
BJS28.jpg  A plaque on the parapet:-
"W.C.C. PEASEY BRIDGE ..." (taken 12.8.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43 9) 
placename:-  Peasey 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 map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Pesa Bridge
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
image
BO18SD48.jpg
"Pesa Bridge"
road across the Peasey Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24SD58.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Peasey Beck 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
image  click to enlarge
COP4.jpg
road across stream; bridge? 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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