Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BIRKS-BRIDGE

BIRKS-BRIDGE, a one-arched bridge over the river Duddon, at the E base of Birker Fell, in Cumberland. It spans a romantic rocky chasm, supposed to represent the "Fairy Chasm" of Wordsworth.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a one-arched bridge"   (ADL Feature Type: "bridges")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC

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