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Bannisdale Low Bridge, Fawcett Forest
Bannisdale Low Bridge
site name:-   Bannisdale Beck
civil parish:-   Fawcett Forest (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Whitwell and Selside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY54270111
1Km square:-   NY5401
10Km square:-   NY50


photograph
CCY24.jpg (taken 1.5.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 1) 
placename:-  Bannisdale New 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.
"Bannisdale New Bridge"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bannisdale Low Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BANNISDALE LOW BRIDGE / / A6 / FAWCETT FOREST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75627 / NY5426301112"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over Bannisdale Beck. 1820s. Stone rubble with dressed coping. Round arch with flanking piers, band over and coped parapet. Abutments on west side curve forwards. Roadway approx. 9m wide. On route of Heron Syke to Eamont bridge turnpike road established in 1820s, replacing old route over Bannisdale High Bridge (q.v.)."

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