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New Bridge, Easedale
New Bridge
site name:-   Easedale Beck
locality:-   Easedale
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   NY32780826
1Km square:-   NY3208
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BSX38.jpg (taken 27.6.2010)  
photograph
BSX39.jpg (taken 27.6.2010)  
Replacement for a packhorse bridge.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
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:-   probably 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.
image
J5NY30NW.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland


photograph
CBT88.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  

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