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Bens Bridge, Garsdale
Bens Bridge
site name:-   Clough River
Street:-   Hawes Road
locality:-   East Paradise
civil parish:-   Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD75178973
1Km square:-   SD7589
10Km square:-   SD78
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BWZ02.jpg (taken 27.7.2012)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bens Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BENS BRIDGE (EAST PARADISE) / / HAWES ROAD / GARSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484443 / SD7517989730"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Packhorse bridge over Clough River. Probably C17, rebuilt after flood in 1895. Large snecked sandstone rubble. Wide segmental arch with rubble voussoirs, stone slate band, narrow humped deck protected by parapets with triangular coping stones. Soffit of arch reported to be cracked at time of survey (October 1994)."

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