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Mumps Hall Bridge, Gilsland
Mumps Hall Bridge
site name:-   Irthing, River
locality:-   Gilsland
civil parish:-   Upper Denton (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Waterhead (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY63216647
1Km square:-   NY6366
10Km square:-   NY66

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BOV61.jpg (taken 21.3.2008)  
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BOV62.jpg  Inscribed stone on parapet:-
"C.C.C. / MUMPS HALL BRIDGE / REBUILT 18[ ]" (taken 21.3.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 13 9) 
placename:-  Mumpshall 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:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Sax9NY66.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   probably old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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MER8CumA.jpg
""
double across a stream; bridge, over the Irthing 
item:-  JandMN : 169
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Mumpshall 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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BEL9NY66.jpg
"MUMPSHALL"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

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BOV63.jpg  View of river.
(taken 21.3.2008)  
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