Southwaite Bridge, Cumbria
N 54° 38.566 W 003° 20.892
30U E 477528 N 6055095
Southwaite Bridge is one of the old county bridges. That is maintained by the county bridge engineer.
Waymark Code: WM3ZK6
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/12/2008
Views: 13
The bridge is wonderfully constructed from a mixture of local stone. A local limestone for the main arches and walls with a red sandstone for the coping stones. There are two main arches with a little arch on either side. The river is quite wide at this point, and may have been a ford to the nearby mill. The bridge would have been single cart wide initially, widened for modern vehicle traffic.
There is a stone inscription in the centre of the downstream wall. It reads.
"Cockermouth Highways Board
Erected
1890
Thomas Paisley E??
Chairman
J R Wilson C.B.
Surveyor
Joseph Green
Builder"
Physical Location (city, county, etc.): Southwaite Mill, near Cockermouth, Cumbria
Road, Highway, Street, etc.: Unclassified
Water or other terrain spanned: River Cocker
Architect/Builder: J R Wilson surveyor and Joseph Green builder.
Construction Date: 1890
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