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Soulby Bridge, Soulby
Soulby Bridge
site name:-   Scandal Beck
locality:-   Soulby
civil parish:-   Soulby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY74941095
1Km square:-   NY7410
10Km square:-   NY71


photograph
BNM21.jpg (taken 30.3.2007)  
photograph
BNM22.jpg  Inscribed on one stone:-
"1819" (taken 30.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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
BO18NY71.jpg
road across Scandal Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY71SW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Soulby Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SOULBY BRIDGE / / / SOULBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73034 / NY7494110953"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge; 3 semicircular arches and 2 piers with cutwaters. Coursed rubble with stone copings to parapet. According to R.C.H.M., probably rebuilt 1819 on earlier (C17?) cutwaters."


photograph
BNM23.jpg  Inscribed on another stone:-
"1893" and a cut bench mark
(taken 30.3.2007)  

notes:-  
Built 1819.

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