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The Cock-Up Bridge, Burwell Lode, 1950 (MoC208/68)

Cock-Up Bridge, Burwell Lode

History of Burwell Lode

This map is assumed to be the bridge shown in the picture, described as The Cock-Up, Burwell Lode.

Burwell Lode OS 1885

The Lode, Burwell (MoC)

The Cock-up bridge figures prominently in The Farm in the Fens, Alan Bloom, 1943 as the bridge lay on the southern boundary of the farm, Priory Farm.

Cock-up bridge c.1943 (from The Farm in the Fen)

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