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Belah Bridge, Brough Sowerby
Belah Bridge
site name:-   Belah, River
civil parish:-   Brough Sowerby (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Kaber (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge (old) 
coordinates:-   NY79361209
1Km square:-   NY7912
10Km square:-   NY71


photograph
BLW97.jpg  The old bridge, the road is now straightened a little, over a new bridge.
(taken 21.4.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 7) 
placename:-  Belah Bridge
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 map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY71SE.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY71.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Belah 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

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