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Rosthwaite Bridge, Rosthwaite
Rosthwaite Bridge
site name:-   Stonethwaite Beck
locality:-   Rosthwaite
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY25691511
1Km square:-   NY2515
10Km square:-   NY21


photograph
CGV53.jpg (taken 3.11.2017)  
photograph
CGV54.jpg  Access to river
(taken 3.11.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 10) 
placename:-  Rosthwaite 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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY21SE.jpg
double line across a river; a bridge over Stonethwaite Beck 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Rosthwaite Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ROSTHWAITE BRIDGE / / / BORROWDALE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72139 / NY2588714964"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. Early C19 with inscribed parapet stone THIS BRIDGE WAS BUILT FOR AND AT THE SOLE EXPENCE OF THOMAS SIMPSON (2 words illegible) BY M. KENNEDY MASON. Greenslate rubble. Narrow single-span humped-back bridge with slate voussoirs, under solid parapet with slate-slab coping."


photograph
CGV55.jpg  View of river.
(taken 3.11.2017)  

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