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High Borrow Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Historical Forms

  • Borrowbridge 1651 Bridges7d

Etymology

, 1712 NWm 202 , 1727 PR(Sh) , Borrowbridge 1651Bridges 7d , one of the bridges across BorrowBeck (i, 4supra ) , cf. Low Borrow Bridge (ii, 51infra ) ; the High Borrow Bridge is now a bridge further upstream than the farm of that name , which is near Huck's Bridge (i, 143infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name