button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Hellpool Bridge, Whicham
Hellpool Bridge
site name:-   Whicham Beck
civil parish:-   Whicham (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD13868164
1Km square:-   SD1381
10Km square:-   SD18
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BWP47.jpg  The old bridge.
(taken 28.5.2012)  
The present bridge for a rebuilt road is uninteresting.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 88 13) 
placename:-  Hellpool 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.
"Hellpool Bridge"

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Hell Pool 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
BEL9SD18.jpg
"HELL POOL"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.