Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Pelter Bridge
	site name:-	Rothay, River
	locality:-	Rydal
	parish	Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		bridge
	coordinates:-	NY36600594
	10Km square:-	NY30
	1Km square	NY3605
		Pelter Bridge -- Rothay, River -- Rydal -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 17.8.2005
		Pelter Bridge -- Rothay, River -- Rydal -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 17.2.2007
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		Page 109:-
		... At one mile from Ambleside a road crossing Pelter Bridge on the left, leads to Langdale, or round Loughrigg Fell. ...
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	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
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		PELTER BRIDGE / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452641 / NY3662605970
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Date uncertain Stone rubble 3-centred arch and a small flood arch with slate parapet, narrow, humped. Very picturesque feature in parkland landscape. For group notes see General group description under Rydal.
	placename:-	Pelter Bridge
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY36620597
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	descriptive text:-	Farington 1789 (plate 20)
		20 engravings, Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland, drawn by Joseph Farington, published by William Byrne, London, 1789.
		Print, engraving, The Bridge and part of the Village of Rydal, Lakes, Cumbria, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and J Landseer, published by W Byrne, 69 Titchfield Street, London, 1785.
		Pelter Bridge over the River Rothay, Heron Pike in the background.
		Plate 20 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:-
		VIEW near the VILLAGE of RYDAL.
		... The Bridge, which is thrown over the River Rothay, is happily situated in this View; ...
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late
	old print:-	Cooke c1827
		Print, engraving, Rydal, Westmorland, engraved by J and H S Storer, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1827?
		Part of the frontispiece to The Tourist's and Traveller's Companion to the Lakes, by Charles Cooke.
		printed at bottom left, centre:-
		J. & H. S. Storer sculpt. / Rydal.
	date:-	1827
	period:-	19th century, early
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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