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placename:- Low Wood Bridge
site name:- Leven, River
locality:- Low Wood
parish Haverthwaite parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
bridge
coordinates:- SD34528364
10Km square:- SD38

1Km square SD3483

photograph

Low Wood Bridge -- Leven, River -- Low Wood -- Haverthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 7.4.2006
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Low Wood Bridge -- Leven, River -- Low Wood -- Haverthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Inscription:- -- 'C.C. LOW WOOD BRIDGE' -- 7.4.2006

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
LOW WOOD BRIDGE / / B5278 / HAVERTHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421791 / SD3452683646
courtesy of English Heritage
Bridge. C18 or early C19. Stone rubble. 3 elliptical arches with 2 round cutwaters to each side, which are roughcast, with caps. Parapet has plain coping. Probably associated with Low Wood ironworks, the site later taken over for gunpowder works, of which the Clock Tower works (q.v.) remain.

placename:- Low Wood Bridge
district:- South Lakeland
listed building
coordinates:- SD34528364
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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