Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Derwent Bridge
	site name:-	Derwent, River
	locality:-	Cockermouth
	parish	Cockermouth parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		bridge
	coordinates:-	NY11643071
	10Km square:-	NY13
	1Km square	NY1130
		Derwent Bridge -- Derwent, River -- Cockermouth -- Cockermouth -- Cumbria / -- 26.4.2007
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 81:-
		...
		... The bridge over the Derwent consists of two arches, and is two hundred and seventy feet in length; ...
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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 stream.
		bridge
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		road across the Derwent
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Ogilby 1675 (plate 96)
		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 14, Cumberland.
		Road crosses:-
		a Stone bridg over Darwent fluv:
		and meets the River Cocker, no bridge drawn.
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576 -- probably relevant
		Map, 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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		W of Cockermouth.
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		bridge
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		DERWENT BRIDGE / / / COCKERMOUTH / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71648 / NY1164830712
		courtesy of English Heritage
		1822. Two segmental spans in tooled masonry, with plain string, over-sailing courses and parapets. Cutwaters are triangular on plan. Carries 2 footpaths and 2 lines of traffic over River Derwent. A simple structure of value to the landscape. Derwent Bridge forms a group with Nos 5 to 19 (odd). Nos 23 to 27 (odd) and Derwent Bridge House, Cote Road.
	placename:-	Derwent Bridge
	district:-	Allerdale
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY11643071
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Print, lithograph? The Derwent, seen from John Wordsworth's Terrace, Cockermouth, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Tipped in opposite p.28 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson.
		Derwent Bridge in the middle ground.
		printed at bottom:-
		THE DERWENT, SEEN FROM JOHN WORDSWORTH'S TERRACE, COCKERMOUTH
		signed at painting lower left:-
		Arthur Tucker
	date:-	1911
	period:-	1910s
	mapping:-	-- NY11643066 -- NY11643075
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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