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High Sweden Bridge, Lakes
High Sweden Bridge
site name:-   Scandale Beck
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   packhorse bridge
locality type:-   bridge (?) 
coordinates:-   NY37910676
1Km square:-   NY3706
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BPH72.jpg (taken 9.6.2008)  
photograph
BPH73.jpg (taken 9.6.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 2) 
placename:-  High Sweden Bridge
placename:-  Sweden Bridge, High
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 drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Sweden Bridge
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, High Sweden Bridge, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
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AS0370.jpg
"Sweden Bridge / Ambleside"
page number  "54"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.70
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  gate
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, High Sweden Bridge on Scandale Beck, above Ambleside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0891.jpg
The gate is made with a pair of gate stoups and poles. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS562
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, High Sweden Bridge over Scandale Beck, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0209.jpg
stamped at rev:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS28
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  High Sweden Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HIGH SWEDEN BRIDGE / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 450575 / NY3790606764"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Late C17 packhorse bridge, consisting of 5-centred arch without parapets."

evidence:-   old print:- Britton and Brayley 1802
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, View in Scandale, Westmorland, painted by G Arnald, engraved by William Cooke, published by Vernor and Hood, Poultry, London, 1807.
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PR0142.jpg
Included in the Beauties of England and Wales, by John Britton and Edward W Brayley. The bridge is probably High Sweden Bridge. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Engrav'd by Willm. Cooke from a painting by G. Arnald / for the Beauties of England & Wales. E.W.B dxt. / VIEW IN SCANDALE, near Ambleside, / Westmoreland. / London. Publish'd by Vernor, Hood &Sharpe. Poultry, Novr. 1st. 1807."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.142
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hearsay:-  
14 foot span, 68 ins wide, no parapets.

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