Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Lune, River
	parish	Ravenstonedale parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Orton S parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Tebay parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Grayrigg parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Sedbergh parish, once in Yorkshire
	parish	Firbank parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Killington parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Middleton parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Mansergh parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Barbon parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Casterton parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Kirkby Lonsdale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		river
	coordinates:-	NY6205
	10Km square:-	NY60
	10Km square:-	SD69
	10Km square:-	SD68
	county:-	Lancashire
		river
	10Km square:-	SD68
	1Km square	NY6205
	1Km square	SD68
		Lune, River -- Ravenstonedale and Orton S etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- At Lincoln's Inn Bridge:- -- SD632923 (at) -- 13.1.2012
		Lune, River -- Ravenstonedale and Orton S etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- At Salterwath Bridge, Tebay. -- NY61160086 (at) -- 18.4.2007
	old map:-	LMS 1920s maps
		Railway map, lithograph, 23 pages of strip maps, The Journey in Brief, the Route London to Carlisle, and a general map, Diagram of the Route London to Glasgow and Edinburgh, published by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s.
		The Gorge of the Upper Lune. One of the best pieces of scenery between London and Edinburgh.
	date:-	1920=1929
	period:-	1920s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		R. Lune
		wiggly line, river
		R. Lune
		double wiggly line
		R. Lune
	placename:-	Lune, River
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	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.
		Lune R.
	placename:-	Lune River
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		...
		[at Devil's Bridge, Kirkby Lonsdale] In heavy floods, the river rises a height of 15 feet or more. In ordinary seasons the battlements are about 52 feet above the level of the water. The views of the river from the centre are singularly beautiful; it here flows through a rocky channel, narrow, but of a profound depth; and the banks on either side are adorned with fine trees. ...
	date:-	1849
	period:-	19th century, early
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		[... the Lune - which at] Kirkby Lonsdale is a fine river, and crossed by a lofty antique bridge; it is navigable at Lancaster, a little below which place it falls into the sea.
		...
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		... Towards the south-east succeeds [from the 3rd division of rocks] a series of rocks of the same dark-blue colour, and principally of a slaty structure: but accompanied in places with a rock, which breaks alike in all directions. This last has supplied a great portion of the rounded
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		stones found in the beds of the rivers Kent and Lune; thus furnishing materials for paving the streets, and repairing the roads in the vicinity.
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		...
		A conglomerate, composed of rounded stones of various sizes, from the smallest gravel, to the weight of several pounds, held together by a ferruginous, calcareous cement, ...
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		A large mass of similar composition appears in the bed and on the banks of the river Lune at Kirkby Lonsdale. Its dip indicates that it should pass under the limestone which appears at a little distance; but, in that case, how it came to contains nodules of limestone I am at a loss to understand. ... wherever the subjacent rock can be seen, it is always deeply coloured by the iron of the conglomerate.
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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		River Lune
	placename:-	Lune, River
	descriptive text:-	Wallis 1810
		Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, now Cumbria, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, London, 1810; published 1810-36.
		PRINCIPAL RIVERS.
		This county is well watered by the rivers, Eden, Loder, Ken, and Lune, or Lon. ...
		... The Lune, or Lon, rises near Kirby Lonsdale, and running S.W. after being augmented by several streams, passes into Lancashire, and running by the town of Lancaster, falls into the Irish sea about four miles below that town.
	placename:-	Lune
	other name:-	Lon
	date:-	1810
	period:-	19th century, early; 1810s
	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.
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		... ...
		This river Lone or Lune rising in Westmoreland hills runs southward between craggy banks and an unequal channel, inriching those who live on it in the summer months with a fine salmon fishery; which fish delighting in clear streams and sandy flats come in shoals to this and other rivers on this coast. As soon as it visits Lancashire the little river Lac unites its waters with it from the east, where now is Over Burrow, a mean country village, ...
		From this Burgh the river Lone passes by Thurland, a castle of the Tunstalls, ...
		The Lone proceeding a few miles further, sees on its south bank the chief town of the county, called more properly by the natives Loncaster, as also by the Scots, who gave it the name of Loncastell from the river Lone. Both the name and the river running by it prove it to be LONGOVICUM, ...
		While I was looking round from this hill [in Lancaster] for the mouth of the Lone which empties itself not much below, Forness, the other part of this county, almost torn off by the sea, presented itself to my view. ...
	placename:-	Lone, River
	other name:-	Lune, River
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
		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.
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		...
		The river Lune rising a little above Ravenstondale, or Rissendale, runs by Lang gill, ... After receiving the Birckbeck it runs down by a field called Gallaber, where stands Brandreth stone, ...
	placename:-	Lune, River
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
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		river
	county:-	Lancashire
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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		... [station, Hornby Road] is on the south side of the great, or Queen's road, a little higher than where Mr. Gray stood; for there the vale is in full display, including a long reach of the river and the wheel of Lune, forming a high crowned isthmus, fringed with tall trees, that in time past was the solitary site of a hermit [1]. ...
		[1] Hugh, to whom William de Lancastre, sixth baron of Kendal, gave a certain place called Askeleros and Croc, to look to his fishing in the river Loyn [or Lune.] - Burn's Westmorland, p.31
		...
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		... The station [roman fort, Lancaster] was called Longovicum, and in process of time the inhabitants were called Longovices, i.e. a people living upon the Lon or Lune.
		...
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		'... [Mr. Gray's view from his station, Hornby Road] on each hand of the middle distance rise two sloping hills, the left clothed with thick wood, the right with variegated rock
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		and herbage. Between them, is the richest of valleys, the Lune serpentizes for many a mile, and comes forth ample and clear thro' a well wooded and richly pastured foreground. ...'
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		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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		... Here [Lancaster] is a good bridge of four arches over the Lune, that runs, when the tide is out, in two steams, divided by a bed of gravel, which is not covered but in spring tides; below the town it widens to near the breadth of the Thames at London, and meets the sea at five or six miles distance to south-west.
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		...
		Oct. 12. I set out for Settle by a fine turnpike-road, ... on the left the river Lune winding in a deep valley, its hanging banks clothed with fine woods, through which you catch long reaches of the water as the road winds about at a considerable height above it. ... In the most picturesque part of the way, I passed the part belonging to the Hon. Mr. Clifford, a catholic. The grounds between him and the river, are indeed charming [1]; ...
		[1] This scene opens just three miles from Lancaster, on what is called the Queen's road. ... in the richest of valleys, the Lune serpentizes for many a mile, and comes forth ample and clear, through a well wooded and richly pastured fore-ground. ...
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		Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century
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		...
		... [at] Underley. The prospect was of the most amusing kind. At the foot of the steep bank on which we walked, being about forty or fifty yards perpendicular, glided the large pellucid river Lune, amongst the rocks and pebbles, which amused the ear, whilst the eye was entertained itself with a vast variety of agreeable objects. A transparent sheet of still water, about half a mile in length, lay stretched out before us; at the high end of it was a grotesque range of impending rocks of red stone, about thirty yards in perpendicular height, which had an excellent effect in the scene, both by their colour and situation. We were told,
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		that in winter the precipice was in some parts so glazed over with ice, from the water trickling down the surface, as to make it appear like a sheet of alabaster. From other parts of the impending rocks hung great and enormous icicles, which made it appear like a huge organ.
		...
		After breakfast, we walked by the side of the river to the bridge. The channel is deep, the stream rapid, among rocks, the banks on each side covered with trees of various foliage, which serve both as a defence and ornament. The bridge is the most lofty, strong, ancient, and striking to the eye of a stranger, of any I have yet seen. ...
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		...
		From the top of the bridge the prospect down the river is delightful: the sides of the deep channel covered with trees, are nearly parallel for half a mile, and the water one continued surface, save here and there where a pointed rock lift up its head above the stream. We walked down by the side of the river about a mile, and as we proceeded were continually presented with new prospects; while the soft murmurs of the river afforded a variety of different notes. ...
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		If the traveller is distressed for time, and has no inclination to take a second view of the river Lune and its environs, he may order his horse to be sent to Cowan-bridge, and walk through the park of Borough-hall, where he may be entertained with a variety of other prospects.
	other name:-	Loyn, River
	other name:-	Lon, River
	person:-	: Gray, Mr
	person:-	hermit : Hugh
	date:-	1760; 1769; 1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s; 1770s
	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, county boundary Westmorland Yorkshire
		wiggly line then double line with stream lines, county boundary Westmorland Yorkshire
		Lone or Lune R.
		double line with stream lines
	placename:-	Lone River
	other name:-	Lune River
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
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		Wiggly line.
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		Lone R.
		Wiggly line.
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		Wiggly line; partly county boundary with Yorkshire.
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		Lune R.
		Double line with stream lines.
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746
		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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		...
		... The greatest River in the South Parts [of Westmoreland], is the Lone or Lune, which rising near Mallerstrand Forest, not far from Rissendale, gives Name to the Track called Lonsdale, i.e. a vale upon the Lone. After receiving some Rivulets, and the two Rivers Birkbeck and Burrow, near Orton. it grows a large Stream, and waters the middle Part of the County, and near half the Borders towards Yorkshire, and then passes into Lancashire. ...
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		...
		Kirkby Lonsdale, ... with a good Stone Bridge over the River Lone.
	placename:-	Lone, River
	other name:-	Lune, River
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Badeslade 1742
		A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, and descriptive text, Cumberland similarly, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
		... the Lone or Lune after having received the River Burrow is the Boundary [of Westmorland] to Yorkshire, then passes by Kirby Lonsdale into Lancashire.
	placename:-	Lone, River
	other name:-	Lune, River
	date:-	1742
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	descriptive text:-	Defoe 1724-26
		Travel book, Tour through England and Wales, by Daniel Defoe, published in parts, London, 1724-26.
		... Lancaster is the next, the county town, and situate near the mouth of the River Lone or Lune.
		...
		... Kirby Launsdale, or Lunedale, because it stands on the River Lune, which is the boundary of the county, and leaves the hills of Mallerstang Forest, which are, in many places, unpassable.
	placename:-	Lone, River
	placename:-	Lune, River
	date:-	1724=1726
	period:-	18th century, early; 1720s
	old map:-	Stukeley 1723
		Map of roman roads through Britain, scale about 55 miles to 1 inch, derived from the Antonine Itineraries, plotted by William Stukeley, 1723, published London, 1724.
	date:-	1723
	period:-	18th century, early; 1720s
	descriptive text:-	Fiennes 1698
		Travel book, manuscript record of Journeys through England including parts of the Lake District, by Celia Fiennes, 1698.
		... on the Castle tower walking quite round by the battlements I saw the whole town and river at a view, which runs almost quite round and returns againe by the town, ...
		... in the river there are a great many wires or falls of water made for salmon fishing, where they hang their nets and catch great quantety's of fish, which is neare the bridge; ...
	date:-	1698
	period:-	17th century, late
	period:-	1690s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Wmd)
		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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		Lone flu / Lone flu
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		Lone Flu
		With the county boundary drawn alongside.
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		Lune Flu
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	placename:-	Lune Flu.
	other name:-	Lone Flu.
	county:-	Westmorland
	county:-	Yorkshire
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Ogilby 1675 (plate 38)
		Road book, Britannia, strip road maps, with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland etc, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675; and a general map of England and Wales.
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		In mile 233, Lancashire.
		Lune Flu:
		crossed by the road.
	placename:-	Lune Flu.
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	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.
		Lune fl.
		Double wiggly line tapering to single.
	county:-	Westmorland
	county:-	Lancashire
	county:-	Yorkshire
	date:-	1646
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Jenner 1643
		Table of distances and map, Westmerland ie Westmorland, now Cumbria, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643.
		wiggly line
	date:-	1643
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	poem:-	Drayton 1612/1622 text
		Poem, Polyolbion, by Michael Drayton, published 1612, part 2 with Cumbria published by John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
		page 133:-
		...
		... ...
		page 162:-
	placename:-	Lon
	date:-	1612; 1622
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s; 1620s
	old map:-	Drayton 1612/1622
		Map, Cumberlande and Westmorlande, by Michael Drayton in part 2 of Polyolbion, probably engraved by William Hole; published by John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
		The springe of Lun
		River, naiad.
	placename:-	Lun, Springe of
	other name:-	Springe of Lun
	date:-	1622
	period:-	17th century, early; 1620s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Wmd)
		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; county boundary
		Lune flud
		double line with stream lines
	placename:-	Lune flud
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576 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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		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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		Lune flu:
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	placename:-	Lune Flu.
	county:-	Westmorelandia
	county:-	Lancastraie
		river
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	source:-	Lloyd 1573
		Map, Angliae Regni, Kingdom of England, with Wales, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, authored by Humphrey Lloyd, Denbigh, Clwyd, drawn and engraved by Abraham Ortelius, Netherlands, 1573.
		Lan flu.
	placename:-	Lan Flu.
	date:-	1573
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	old map:-	Gough 1350s-60s
		Reproduction of the Gough Map of Great Britain, reduced size, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1875; and a full size line reproduction, with added transcriptions of placenames, 1935.
		lon
		Flowing from east of Kirkby Lonsdale to the sea.
	placename:-	Lon
		river
	road book:-	Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
		Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.
		page 267-268
		Cross the Loyne River.
		page 315-316
		Cross the Lune or Loyne River.
		twice
		page 333-334
		Cross the Loyne River
	placename:-	Loyne, River
	other name:-	Lune, River
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
		photographs
		Lune, River -- Ravenstonedale and Orton S etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- At the 'stepping stones', Tebay. -- NY61200505 (at) -- 16.10.2009
		Lune, River -- Ravenstonedale and Orton S etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- at Lune's Bridge, Tebay. -- NY61300286 (at) -- 9.12.2005
		Lune, River -- Ravenstonedale and Orton S etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- River bed at Lune's Bridge, Tebay. -- NY61300286 (at) -- 9.12.2005
		Lune, River -- Ravenstonedale and Orton S etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- View N from Rigmaden Bridge, Mansergh. -- SD61688486 (at) -- 1.12.2006
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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