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Flush Bracket 2405: Leake Bridge   

Flush Bracket on W. battlement of bridge at Leake [2GL] - FB reported 04/1953 as "returned to O.S.O."; presumably replaced by FB G3195.

Location
Grid reference: SE 4318 9064.
Landranger 99: Northallerton & Ripon, Pateley Bridge & Leyburn.
Structure: Bridge.
Waypoint: FB2405.

Neighbouring Flush Brackets
G3195 Leake Bridge 0.00m to the east.
G3194 Leake House Farm 1.05km to the northwest.
G3280 By Borrowby 1.56km to the south.
2404 Broad Beck Bridge 2.08km to the south.
G3193 Landmoth Farm 2.14km to the north.
The nearest fundamental bench mark is Northallerton, 3.01km to the north.

Second Geodetic Levelling, England & Wales (1912-21)
This flush bracket was used during the Second geodetic levelling, England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 311.7880 feet [95.0330 metres] above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). It was included on the Bulmer to Northallerton levelling line. The surveyor's description was Flush Bracket on W. battlement of bridge at Leake.

Logged Visits
Logged on 21st January 2006 by ted. Condition: Probably destroyed.
Not entirely sure which bridge. No sign of FB on Stell Bank bridge, N of Leake church and just E of A19. Cut BM/bolt on church.
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