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Church Bridge, Crosby Ravensworth
Church Bridge
site name:-   Dalebanks Beck
locality:-   Crosby Ravensworth
civil parish:-   Crosby Ravensworth (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   footbridge
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   packhorse bridge (?) 
coordinates:-   NY62141480
1Km square:-   NY6214
10Km square:-   NY61


photograph
BSH51.jpg (taken 14.3.2010)  
photograph
BME44.jpg (taken 30.5.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 16) 
placename:-  Church 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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FOOTBRIDGE OVER DALESBANK BECK TO SOUTH OF CHURCH / / / CROSBY RAVENSWORTH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74038 / NY6214614805"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Footbridge. Probably C19. Constructed of coursed rubble. Single segmental arch spanning c.6 ft. Pathway is c.4 ft wide; parapets are c.2 ft high, with splayed ends, constructed of dressed copings laid end down."

:-  
Perhaps not a packhorse bridge, but just for access to the church.

Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria)

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