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New Bridge, Sedbergh
New Bridge
Sedbergh New Bridge
site name:-   Rawthey, River
Street:-   Hawes Road
locality:-   Sedbergh
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD66519194
1Km square:-   SD6691
10Km square:-   SD69


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BJQ88.jpg (taken 24.7.2005)  
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BJZ05.jpg (taken 4.11.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63 4) 
placename:-  New Bridge
placename:-  Bridge, New
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:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Sax9SD69.jpg
Over the Rawthey. 
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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SP14SD69.jpg
double line across the Rawthey at Sedbergh 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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SAN2Cm.jpg
double line over a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   probably old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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MD10SD69.jpg
Double line over a stream over the Rawthey. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

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.
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J5SD69SE.jpg
no bridge, but the road to Richmond runs straight to the river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  New Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NEW BRIDGE / / HAWES ROAD / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484570 / SD6651791950"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public road bridge over River Rawthey. C18. Slobbered rubble. Two wide segmental arches springing from a central pier which has triangular cutwaters on both sides, each with a small pediment above it; squinches at the north-west and south-east corners; parapets with rounded and grooved coping stones, curved outwards at the corner with the squinches."

evidence:-   old map:- OS County series (Yrk 63) 
placename:-  Soolbank Bridge
source data:-   "Soolbank Bridge"


photograph
BVI32.jpg (taken 10.9.2011)  

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