Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Miller Bridge
	site name:-	Kent, River
	locality:-	Kendal
	parish	Kendal parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		bridge
	coordinates:-	SD51699265
	10Km square:-	SD59
	1Km square	SD5192
		Miller Bridge -- Kent, River -- Kendal -- Kendal -- Cumbria / -- 11.4.2013
		Miller Bridge -- Kent, River -- Kendal -- Kendal -- Cumbria / -- 11.4.2013
	old map:-	OS County Series (Wmd 38 8)
		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.
	placename:-	Miller Bridge
		bridge
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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		Implied by a road across the Kent.
		bridge
	old map:-	Jefferys 1770
		Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
		Mill Bridge
		bridge
	placename:-	Mill Bridge
	date:-	1770
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) -- probably relevant
		Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
		double line, road, across a stream; bridge
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1770
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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		Page 1023:-
		...
		Kendal, called also Kirkby Candale, i.e. a Church in the Valley upon the River Can, over which it has two Bridges of Stone, and one of Wood, ...
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Ogilby 1675 (plate 38)
		Road book, Britannia, strip road maps, with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland etc, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675; and a general map of England and Wales.
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		In mile 256, Westmoreland.
		Street in Kendal crossing the River Kent.
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	old map:-	Jefferys 1770
		Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
		Mill Bridge
		bridge
	placename:-	Mill Bridge
	date:-	1770
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) -- probably relevant
		Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
		double line, road, across a stream; bridge
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1770
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
		photographs
		Miller Bridge -- Kent, River -- Kendal -- Kendal -- Cumbria / -- 11.4.2013
		photographs
	hearsay	This was originally a wooden bridge, regularly washed away by floods. It was built of stone in 1743. The present bridge was designed by Francis Webster.
	mapping:-	-- SD51669268 -- SD5192 -- SD51629275 -- SD5192
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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