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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 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 2) placename:- High Sweden Bridge placename:- Sweden Bridge, High |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s placename:- Sweden Bridge |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, High Sweden Bridge, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852. click to enlargeAS0370.jpg "Sweden Bridge / Ambleside" page number "54" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.70 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- gate |
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| source data:- | Photograph, sepia, High Sweden Bridge on Scandale Beck, above Ambleside, Westmorland,
by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0891.jpg The gate is made with a pair of gate stoups and poles. item:- Armitt Library : ALPS562 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, High Sweden Bridge over Scandale Beck, by Herbert Bell,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0209.jpg stamped at rev:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS28 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- High Sweden Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "HIGH SWEDEN BRIDGE / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 450575 / NY3790606764" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Late C17 packhorse bridge, consisting of 5-centred arch without parapets." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Britton and Brayley 1802 |
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| 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. click to enlargePR0142.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 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
14 foot span, 68 ins wide, no parapets. |
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