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Green plaque № 11542

Milnthorpe, Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom

THE OLD BRIDGE. This bridge over the River Bela was built in 1763 at a cost of £90. The contractors were Robert Robinson, a free mason, and Robert Bindloss, a waller. It replaced a bridge 20 yards upstream near the steps built in 1542 from a bequest of Edmund Pearson, a tanner, for 'the supportation

and making of a bridge at the end of Milnthorpe'. Until 1813 the road to Arnside crossed the bridge and took the line of the public footpath across the Park to Dallam Tower and then over the hill to

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