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Wath Bridge, Cleator Moor
Wath Bridge
site name:-   Ehen, River
locality:-   Wath
civil parish:-   Cleator Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY03171445
1Km square:-   NY0314
10Km square:-   NY01


photograph
BPJ77.jpg (taken 30.6.2008)  
photograph
BPJ78.jpg  Cutwater, downstream side, with depth gauge.
(taken 30.6.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 12) 
placename:-  Wath 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.
image
SAX9NY01.jpg
double line across the Ehen 
item:-  private collection : 2
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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.
image
MER8CumE.jpg
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double across a stream; bridge, over the Ehen 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP11NY01.jpg
double line across the Ehen 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
image
JAN3NY01.jpg
double line across the Ehen 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
image
MD12NY01.jpg
double line across the Ehen 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
image
OT02NY01.jpg
road across the Ehen at Wath 
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02NY01.jpg
road across the Ehen at Wath 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2NY01.jpg
road across the Ehen at Wath 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Wath 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.
image
BEL9NY01.jpg
"WATH"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library


photograph
BPJ79.jpg  View of river.
(taken 30.6.2008)  

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