Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Hawes Bridge, Natland


	Hawes Bridge, Natland
	Hawes Bridge
site name:-	Kent, River
locality:-	Natland
civil parish:-	Natland (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-	Helsington (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	bridge
coordinates:-	SD51158908
1Km square:-	SD5189
10Km square:-	SD58

	BJU77.jpg From downstream. (taken 12.9.2005)

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 16) placename:- Hawes 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:-	possibly old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-	Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760. BO18SD48.jpg by road across the Kent item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-	old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Haws Bridge
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. J5SD58NW.jpg "Haws B." double line, road, across a stream; bridge and circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-	old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Haws Bridge
source data:-	Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24SD58.jpg "Haws Br." road across a stream; bridge over the Kent item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag placename:- Haws Bridge item:- geology; fossil; entrochite; Belmintholithus hamonites; botany; flower; Melampyrum sylvaticum; Viburnum opulus; Agaricus chantarellus; temperature
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1794 p.112 "..." "At one o'clock in the afternoon, we directed our course Southwards along the banks of the Kent; and, after walking a little more than two miles, reached Haws-bridge, where the whole body of the current forces its way through a deep and narrow chasm in the limestone rock. Here the petrifactions are, generally speaking, entrochites; in which circumstance these strata differ from those we had examined before. Near the bridge we found a complete but small specimen of belmintholithus hamonites, imbedded in a fragment of stone. The botany of the woods on the West side of the river is various; but I shall only mention the melampyrum sylvaticum, viburnum opulus, and agaricus chantarellus, out of the great profusion of plants afforded by this luxuriant place. Fahrenheit's thermometer stood in the shade, a little after 3 P.M. at 67°; and, at the same time, we found the temperature of a very fine spring to be 46.5°."

evidence:-	:- Hullmandel 1826 placename:- Hawes Bridge
source data:-	click to enlarge HUL104.jpg Print, uncoloured lithograph, Hawes Bridge near Kendal, Natland, Westmorland, drawn by Miss I Cropper and Miss S Atkins, published by Charles Hullmandel, London, 1826. "Drawn on Stone by I.C & S.A. / Printed by C. Hullmandel. / HAWES BRIDGE near KENDAL" item:- Armitt Library : ALMA370.4 Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Hawes Bridge
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "HAWES BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KENT / / HAWES LANE / NATLAND / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76451 / SD5115589081"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "HAWES BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KENT / / / HELSINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75280 / SD5115589082"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Bridge probably C18. Limestone rubble with rough dressed limestone copings to parapet. Large triangular cut water between arches on upstream side. Curved in Plan. 2 arches carry single carriageway road over small river gorge in limestone. Forms part of most attractive setting. Local legend has it that the body of Sir Charles de Leyburne of Cunswick Hall (Underbarrow and Bradleyfield Parish) was washed up here after being murdered and thrown into the river by his son Roger, who wished to come into his inheritance so he could marry. Roger said to have committed suicide when the body was found and his ghost haunts- Cunswick Scar."

ghost story:-	There are said to be dobbies chained to the foundations of the bridge. If you see one it will be silent: if you hear one swearing it will be invisible.

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