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footbridge, Clappersgate
site name:-   Brathay, River
locality:-   Clappersgate
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Skelwith (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   footbridge
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY36280337
1Km square:-   NY3603
10Km square:-   NY30

photograph
BLK83.jpg (taken 5.12.2005)  
photograph
BLK84.jpg (taken 5.12.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 2) 
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.
"Foot Bridge"
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, footbridge, Clappersgate, Brathay, Skelwith, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0874.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS545
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   possibly old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, footbridge, Brathay, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0416.jpg
internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell."
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS70
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   possibly old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  snow
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, footbridge in winter, Brathay, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0417.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS71
Image © see bottom of page
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