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Glasson Bridge, Glasson
Glasson Bridge
site name:-   Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
site name:-   Carlisle Canal
locality:-   Glasson
civil parish:-   Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway bridge
locality type:-   canal bridge
coordinates:-   NY25396061
1Km square:-   NY2560
10Km square:-   NY26
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

photograph
BUH72.jpg (taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUH75.jpg  Cast iron panels.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Glasson Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GLASSON BRIDGE / / / BOWNESS / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71910 / NY2539360612"
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 parapet. Plinth with rounded corners was originally the supporting structure for a canal drawbridge. Increased in height to convert this to a railway bridge. Port Carlisle branch closed 1932."

photograph
BUH73.jpg  View E.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUH74.jpg  View W.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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