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placename:- Grisedale Bridge
parish Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY39041613
10Km square:- NY31

1Km square NY3916

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.
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Drawn by a bridge symbol, over the Grisedale Beck.
bridge
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

descriptive text:- Fiennes 1698 -- perhaps relevant

Travel book, manuscript record of Journeys through England including parts of the Lake District, by Celia Fiennes, 1698.
Here I cross'd one of the stone bridges that was pretty large which entred me into Cummberlandshire. ...
date:- 1698
period:- 17th century, late
period:- 1690s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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