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Water Yeat Bridge, Broughton West
Water Yeat Bridge
site name:-   Lickle, River
civil parish:-   Broughton West (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD23869303
1Km square:-   SD2393
10Km square:-   SD29


photograph
BMG13.jpg (taken 12.6.2006)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Water Yeat Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WATER YEAT BRIDGE (THAT PART IN BROUGHTON WEST) / / / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75808 / SD2386093034"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over River Lickle. Date uncertain, probably C18 widened to south. Stone rubble. Broad segmental arch with thin voussoirs and iron parapet railings. Part of this item is in Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite C.P."

:-  
20 foot span, 9 ft wide, no parapets.

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

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