Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Liddel Water
	other name:-	Liddle Water
	parish	Arthuret parish, once in Cumberland
	parish	Nicholforest parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		river; boundary; national boundary; county boundary
	coordinates:-	NY4377
	10Km square:-	NY47
	locality:-	Cumbria boundary
	1Km square	NY4377
		Liddel Water -- Cumbria boundary -- Arthuret and Nicholforest -- Cumbria / -- At Penton Bridge. -- NY43287735 (at) -- 15.9.2006
		Liddel Water -- Cumbria boundary -- Arthuret and Nicholforest -- Cumbria / -- At Kershopefoot Bridge; the Kershope Burn joins on the right. -- NY47498292 (at) -- 4.6.2010
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		Liddel River
	placename:-	Liddel River
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old text:-	Camden 1789
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
		Page 176:-
		...
		Where the river Lidd falls into the Esk was formerly, as I have been told, Liddel, a castle ...
	placename:-	Lidd
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		wiggly line, national boundary Cumberland Scotland, into the Esk
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746 -- probably relevant
		The Kershope Burn runs into the Liddel at Kershope Foot, and the combined stream runs into the Esk above Longtown.
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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		Longtown, near where the Eske and Kirksop Rivers meet: ...
	placename:-	Eske, River
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Cmd)
		The lower part is the Liddel.
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Kirksop R.
		With the national boundary drawn alongside.
	placename:-	Kirksop River
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Jansson 1646
		Map, Cumbria et Westmoria, or Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724.
		Double wiggly line, tapering to single; country boundary.
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1646
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Cmd)
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		double line, joined by the Kershope
		double line with stream lines, runs into the Esk; national boundary
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576
		Map, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576; published 1579-1645.
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		County boundary.
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		river
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	old map:-	Burghley 1590 (facsimile)
		courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
		Liddall flu
		river
	placename:-	Liddall flu.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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