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Couplandbeck Bridge, Coupland
Couplandbeck Bridge
site name:-   Coupland Beck
locality:-   Coupland
civil parish:-   Warcop (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Murton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY71041888
1Km square:-   NY7118
10Km square:-   NY71

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 15 4) 
placename:-  Couplandbeck 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.
"Coupland Bridge"

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.
image
MD10NY71.jpg
Double line over a stream 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   probably old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Cowpland Beck Bridge
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
image CAM2P159, button  goto source
Page 159:-  "... to Cowpland beck bridge, ..."

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