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Knockupworth Bridge, Beaumont
Knockupworth Bridge
site name:-   Carlisle Canal
site name:-   Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
locality:-   Knockupworth
civil parish:-   Beaumont (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   canal bridge (ex) 
locality type:-   railway bridge (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY37135675
1Km square:-   NY3756
10Km square:-   NY35
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 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.
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Knockupworth Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KNOCKUPWORTH BRIDGE / / / BEAUMONT / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / DL / 78187 / NY3713356752"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge over canal, later railway bridge. 1819-23 for the Carlisle Canal; additions of 1853-4 for the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company. Squared and coursed red and calciferous sandstone; wooden central parapet. Plinth with rounded corners was originally the supporting structure for a canal drawbridge. Increased in height to convert this to a railway bridge, when the canal closed."
hearsay:-  
 The dressed stonework on the west abutment is part of the original canal bridge and is inscribed:-
"1821 AD."
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