Bridekirk Wastewater Treatment Works, Cumbria. Watching Brief Report.

Between June and August 2002 Oxford Archaeology North (OA North) undertook a watching brief on behalf of United Utilities (hereafter the 'client') following plans to extend a sewerage works at Bridekirk, Cumbria (NY 116 337). The watching brief monitored work carried out as part of a scheme to improve discharge quality into the River Derwent.
The Archaeological resource within the study site comprised elements of a post medieval, but also possible earlier, pastoral landscape. The nineteenth century drainage system, exposed across the site, is of no great rarity and was of low archaeological importance.