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Lund Bridge, Nether Wasdale
Lund Bridge
site name:-   Irt, River
locality:-   Wasdale
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Irton with Santon (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY14140390
1Km square:-   NY1403
10Km square:-   NY10


photograph
BMB69.jpg (taken 11.5.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 79 5) 
placename:-  Lund 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 print:- Green 1809
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Bridge in Wasdale, Lund Bridge, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
image  click to enlarge
GN0345.jpg
Plate 45 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. 
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:-  "Number 45. Nether Wasdale is at the foot of Wastwater, and Wasdale head at the head of the lake, which lies in a right line, about fourteen miles north-west of Ambleside. This bridge is over the river Irt, about half a mile from the foot of the lake."
printed at bottom:-  "BRIDGE IN WASDALE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6637.45
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BMB70.jpg  View of river.
(taken 11.5.2006)  

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