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Braithwaite Bridges, Above Derwent
Braithwaite Bridges
Newlands Beck Bridge
site name:-   Newlands Beck
locality:-   Braithwaite
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY24072369
coordinates:-   NY24142371
coordinates:-   NY24122368
1Km square:-   NY2423
10Km square:-   NY22


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BSH91.jpg  Newlands Beck Bridge,
(taken 19.3.2010)  
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BSH92.jpg  Newlands Beck Bridge, plaque:-
"CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL / NEWLANDS BECK BRIDGE / REBUILT 192[5]" (taken 19.3.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 5) 
placename:-  Braithwaite Bridges
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:- OS County Series (Cmd 64) 
placename:-  Braithwaite Bridges
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.
"Braithwaite Bridges"

evidence:-   probably old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Newlands Beck 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.
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BEL9NY22.jpg
"NEWLANDS BECK"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

observation:-  
There are three, or more, bridges around this site. Newlands Beck Bridge on the old road, over that beck; and two 'dry' bridges which show signs of water flow during floods of winter 2009-2010.


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BSH93.jpg  Depth gauges at Newlands Beck Bridge
(taken 19.3.2010)  


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BSH88.jpg  Old bridge,
(taken 19.3.2010)  
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BSH90.jpg  Old bridge, under view showing evidence of widening.
(taken 19.3.2010)  
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BSH89.jpg  Stile at the old bridge,
(taken 19.3.2010)  


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BSH95.jpg  Older bridge, on road beside the old road.
(taken 19.3.2010)  

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