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| Willy Goodwaller Bridge, Easedale | ||
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| Willy Goodwaller Bridge | ||
| site name:- | Easedale Beck | |
| locality:- | Easedale | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | packhorse bridge | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | NY32160875 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3208 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) placename:- Willy Goodwaller Bridge |
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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 photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Willie Goodwaller Bridge |
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| source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Willie Goodwaller Bridge? Easedale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0515.jpg Probably this bridge. internegative at lower left:- "H. Bell" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS178 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Willy Goodwaller Bridge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WILLY GOODWALLER BRIDGE / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452107 / NY3216608742" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Over Far Easedale Gill. A C17 packhorse bridge about 11' 6" wide, with long rubble voussoirs, rising above the level of the track." |
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9 foot span, width 10 foot 8 ins, no parapets. |
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| An earlier bridge was known as the Willie Goodwaller bridge; it was built in drystone
over Willie's back as template. After this washed away in a flood a new bridge was
built by Willie's brother. |
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| Hinchcliffe, Ernest: 1994: Packhorse Bridges of England: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe,
Cumbria) |
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