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Scawgill Bridge, Lorton
Scawgill Bridge
site name:-   Aiken Beck
civil parish:-   Lorton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY17742572
1Km square:-   NY1725
10Km square:-   NY12


photograph
BVY23.jpg (taken 24.2.2012)  
photograph
BVY24.jpg (taken 24.2.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 14) 
placename:-  New Bridge
placename:-  Bridge, New
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.
"New Bridge"

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Scaw Gill 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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BEL9NY12.jpg
"SCAW GILL"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
BLT02.jpg  View of river.
Upstream from Scawgill Bridge.
(taken 24.3.2006)  

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