Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Castle Head Bridge | |
| site name:- | Winster, River | |
| locality:- | Castle Head Hill | |
| parish |
Meathop and Ulpha parish,
once in Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| bridge | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42207968 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD47
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| References |
OS County Series (Wmd 45)
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| 1Km square | SD4279 | |
| source:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 45)
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| County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. | ||
| Castle Head Bridge | ||
| placename:- | Castle Head Bridge | |
| date:- | 1860=1869 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1860s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE / / LINDALE ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460528 / SD4220379678 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Bridge with sluice gates. c1800. Limestone ashlar and rubble, with iron railings on north parapet. Has 2 segmental arches , with cutwaters projecting to north and south which have slots for sluice gates. The southern cutwaters are much taller than those to the north. The solid parapets have bands below their copings. | ||
| HISTORY: John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the ironmaster, who owned the Castle Head estate, carried out a scheme of land drainage and improvement from 1778 onwards. He was also associated with the earliest (unexecuted) large-scale plan to enclose Morecambe Bay. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Marshall JD: Furness and the Industrial Revolution: Barrow-in-Furness: 1958-: 64). | ||
| placename:- | Castle Head Bridge | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42207967 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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