Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Glencoyne Bridge
	site name:-	Glencoyne Beck
	locality:-	Glencoyne
	parish	Matterdale parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		bridge
	coordinates:-	NY38721879
	10Km square:-	NY31
	locality:-	Westmorland boundary
	locality:-	Cumberland boundary
	1Km square	NY3818
		Glencoyne Bridge -- Glencoyne Beck -- Glencoyne -- Westmorland boundary -- Cumberland boundary -- Matterdale -- Cumbria / -- 30.9.2005
		Glencoyne Bridge -- Glencoyne Beck -- Glencoyne -- Westmorland boundary -- Cumberland boundary -- Matterdale -- Cumbria / -- Plaque:- -- 'GLENCOYNE BRIDGE REBUILT JOINTLY BY THE CUMBERLAND & WESTMORLAND COUNTY COUNCILS 1905' -- 30.9.2005
	old map:-	Clarke 1787 map (Ullswater)
		Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
		Drawn by a bridge symbol.
		bridge
	date:-	1787
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Ull)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		bridge
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821) -- probably relevant
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
		goto source.
		Page 156:-
		[W shore of Ullswater, pass] Newbridge, and the road winds up a steep rock, having the lake underneath you on the left. From the top, you have a view under the trees, both up and down the lake. ... The rock you stand on hangs over the lake [Stybarrow Crag], ...
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		Page 157:-
		... Glencairn-beck, descending from Helvellyn, joins the lake at the bridge which unites the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. ...
	placename:-	Newbridge
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Wmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Double line over a stream, over the Glenkwoin flu, on the county boundary; plotted again over the imagined Glenkern Flu.
	county:-	Westmorland
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
		photographs
		Glencoyne Bridge -- Glencoyne Beck -- Glencoyne -- Westmorland boundary -- Cumberland boundary -- Matterdale -- Cumbria / -- 25.8.2007
	hearsay	The Glencoyne Beck was the boundary between Westmorland and Cumberland.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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