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Easton Bridge, Easton
gone
Easton Bridge
site name:-   Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
locality:-   Easton
civil parish:-   Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway bridge (gone) 
coordinates:-   NY27575961
1Km square:-   NY2759
10Km square:-   NY25


photograph
CBM42.jpg (taken 22.8.2014)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Easton Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"EASTON BRIDGE / / / BOWNESS / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71901 / NY2757059617"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over canal, later railway bridge. 1819-23 for the Carlisle Canal; additions of 1853-4 for the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company. Squared and coursed red and calciferous sandstone; cast-iron central parapet on supporting wooden pillars. Plinth with rounded corners was originally the supporting structure for a canal drawbridge. Increased in height to convert this to a railway bridge, when the canal closed. When the railway closed in 1964, the wooden supports were placed under the bridge."


photograph
CBM43.jpg  View E.
(taken 22.8.2014)  
photograph
CBM44.jpg  View W.
(taken 22.8.2014)  

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