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Crooks Bridge, Hesket
Crooks Bridge
Petteril Crooks Bridge
site name:-   Petteril, River
locality:-   Petteril Crooks
civil parish:-   Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY44254812
1Km square:-   NY4448
10Km square:-   NY44


photograph
BTS19.jpg (taken 22.10.2010)  
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BTS20.jpg (taken 22.10.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Petteril Crooks Bridge
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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BEL9NY44.jpg
"PETTERIL CROOKS"
bridge symbol 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Crook's Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROOK'S BRIDGE / / / HESKET / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73929 / NY4425148116"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Roadbridge. Early C19. Mixed blocks of red and calciferous sandstone. 3 segmental arches on splayed cutwater piers, under solid chamfered parapet ending in square piers with shaped caps."

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
source data:-   Drawing, Wreay Bridge, St Cuthbert Without, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1914.
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PR1341.jpg
To right of composition stands a stone 3 span bridge across a river. On far bank of river stands a house at the foot of a wooded hillside. Several lightly sketched figures stand on the bridge or lean over its parapet. 
dated at bottom right:-  "May 9th 1914"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1996.252.30
Image © Tullie House Museum


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BTS21.jpg  View of river.
(taken 22.10.2010)  


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BTS25.jpg  Warning sign.
(taken 22.10.2010)  

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