Gents Mag 1825 part 1 p.411

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.411 ANTIENT STATE AND REMAINS. British Inhabitants, Brigantes, Voluntii and [Sistontii]. Roman Province, Maxima Caesariensis. Stations, Alone, Ambleside; Brovonacis, Brough; Brovacum, Brougham; Concangium, Natland; Gallacum, Kendal; Voreda, Whelp Castle. Saxton Octarchy, Northumbria. Antiquities. British Earthwork, Penhurrock. British Encampments: Milbourne and Haderwain. Druidical Remains of Ellerbeck (called Cock Stones); Helston-cop-stone, and the Druid's cross; Mayborough; Moord[yvv]ock Oddendale, (exactly half the size of Stonehenge); near Pooley, (called the White Raise); near Rothay Bridge, and near Shap (called the Druid's temple). Roman Encampments of Castle-hows, Borrowdale; Castle-steads and Coney beds (exploratory camps to Water Crook); between Crackenthorpe and Crossfell are several (one 300 yards long and 150 broad); Haderwain (opposite the British Encampment); Maiden-castle, Sandford,[ ]; Water-crook (supposed a Station). Roman Temple at Levins (supposed of Diana). Saxon Earthwork, Castle-how or Castle-law-hill. Danish Remains at Shap called Carl-lofts (a most stupendous monument of antiquity). [ ] There are Camps on the banks of the Eden, opposite Pendragon-castle; and at Kendal (semi-circular). Abbeys of Preston Patrick (founded in 1119 by Thomas, son of Gospatric, removed to Shap); Shap (removed from Preston Patrick a few years after 1119). Priory of Battleburgh (founded in 1281 by the Lords Clifford, Percy and V[ ]cy). Churches old Asby (an antient edifice, much diminished by repairs); Askham (enumerated by Grose among the remarkable edifices of the county); Barton; Brough; Crosby Ravensworth (founded by Torphin de Alverstain, temp. Hen. I.exhibited curious specimens of architecture); Kendal; Kirbyshore (very antient); Kirkby Lonsdale (120 feet long and 102 broad); Kirkby Stephen; Sisergh (in ruins). Chapels of Appleby (in ruins in 1482, afterwards converted into the county gaol); Applethwaite, on St. Catharine's brow (converted into a dwelling-house); Asby; Betham; Brougham; Burneshead; Crackenthorpe; Crosthwaite; Grasmere; KENDAL, in Chapel-lane, another on Chapel-hill; Kentmere; Kirkbergh, near Newbiggen; Patterdale (dedicated to St. Patrick); Reagill; Sandford (had one on 1353); Skelsmergh; Smardale (destroyed for several centuries); Stainton (founded temp. Ric. I. by Anselm de Furness, son of first Michael le Fleming); Stavely (handsome steeple); Temple Sowerby; St. Mary Holme, on an island in Winandermere; Wyth; (stood between King's Meaburn and Morland). Stone Pulpit at Brough. Castles of APPLEBY (of great antiquity); Betham; Borrowdale (in ruins); Brough (built before temp. Wm. I.); Brougham (Keep supposed Roman by Grose); Buley (belonged to the Viteriponts and Bps. of Carlisle); Hartley (scarce a vestige remains); Haverback; Howgill; KENDAL (erected on the site of some Roman fort); Maiden; Pendragon, at Mallerstang (erection attributed to Utter Pendragon, the fabled builder of Stonehenge); Warcross; and Whelp, Kirbythore. Mansions of old Calgarth-hall, Kentmere-hall, Preston-hall (a farm-house); Rosgill-hall (now a farm-house, but the remains shew its former importance); Rydall Old-hall (in ruins); Sizergh-hall (the seat of the Stricklands). Caves, Coop-Karnel-hole, &c. at Stenkrith Bridge; Pate-hole ( a remarkable cavern in a lime-stone rock, two furlongs South of Great Asby). PRESENT STATE AND APPEARANCE. Rivers. Barrow; Bertha or Bela; Eamont; Eden; Helle-beck; Hunna; Kent; Lowther; Lune or Lon; Lyvennate; Mint; Rowtha; Sleddale; Sprit; Tees; Winster (the boundary between Westmoreland and Lancashire). Inland Navigation. Wigan and Kendal Canal. Lakes. Ais-water; Angle-tarn *, about 5 acres of water; Broadwater; Elterwater, larger than Grasmere; Grassmere, four miles in compass; Grisedale-tarn; Hause-water, three miles long; Kent-mere, small, fed by the river
	* A tarn is a small lake
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