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runs into:- | Irthing, River | |||
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civil parish:- | Brampton (formerly Cumberland) | |||
civil parish:- | Hayton (formerly Cumberland) | |||
civil parish:- | Castle Carrock (formerly Cumberland) | |||
county:- | Cumbria | |||
locality type:- | river | |||
1Km square:- | NY5456 (etc) | |||
10Km square:- | NY55 | |||
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CBG45.jpg From High Gelt Bridge, (taken 28.7.2014) BPX24.jpg From Low Gelt Bridge. (taken 16.1.2009) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 25 1) placename:- Gelt, River |
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source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. OS County Series (Cmd 25 2) OS County Series (Cmd 25 6) |
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evidence:- | old map:- Saxton 1579 placename:- Gelt Flu. |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 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. Sax9NY55.jpg "Gelt flu:" item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Burghley 1590 (facsimile) placename:- Gelt flu. |
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source data:- | Facsimile map, A Platt of the Opposete Border of Scotland to ye West Marches of England,
parts of Cumberland and Scotland including the Debateable Land, from a manuscript
drawn for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, about 1590, published by R B Armstrong, 1897. courtesy of the National Library of Scotland M048NY55.jpg "Gelt flu" river item:- National Library of Scotland : MS6113 f.267 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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evidence:- | old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) placename:- |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et
Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and
Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator,
Duisberg, Germany, about 1595. MER8CumA.jpg "" double line with stream lines; river, running into the Irthing item:- JandMN : 169 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) placename:- Gelt flud |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie
Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed,
1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head
Alley, London, 1611-12. SP11NY46.jpg double line with stream lines, runs into the Irthing SP11NY55.jpg "Gelt flud" wiggly line item:- private collection : 16 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text placename:- Gelt |
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source data:- | Poem, Poly Olbion, by Michael Drayton, published by published by
John Marriott, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe, and others?
London, part 1 1612, part 2 1622. goto source page 167:- "... Gelt she [Irthing] gets her guide, Which springeth on her South, ..." |
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evidence:- | old map:- Drayton 1612/1622 placename:- Gelt Flu. |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberlande and Westmorlande, by
Michael Drayton, probably engraved by William Hole, scale about
4 or 5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Mariott, John
Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622. DRY503.jpg "Gelt flu" River, naiad. item:- JandMN : 168 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | perhaps old map:- Jenner 1643 |
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source data:- | Tables of distances with a maps, Westmerland, scale about 16
miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch,
published by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643; published 1643-80. JEN4Sq.jpg wiggly line |
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evidence:- | old map:- Jansson 1646 placename:- Gelt Flud |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie
Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646. JAN3NY55.jpg "Gelt fl." Single wiggly line. item:- JandMN : 88 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86) |
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source data:- | Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from Tinmouth ...
to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby,
London, 1675. OG86m060.jpg In mile 61, Cumberland. River crossed by the road over:- "a bridg" flowing through a park, no bridge is drawn. item:- JandMN : 73 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Sanson 1679 |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland
aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of
Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles
to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679. click to enlarge SAN2Cm.jpg tapering wiggly line; river item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Seller 1694 (Cmd) |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 12 miles to 1
inch, by John Seller, 1694. click to enlarge SEL9.jpg tapering wiggly line; river item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.89 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) placename:- Gelt River |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1
inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the
Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the
Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715. MD12NY55.jpg "Gelt R." item:- JandMN : 90 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 placename:- Gelt River |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of
Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards,
scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas
Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John
Bowles, London, 1760. BO18NY55.jpg "Gelt R." wiggly line item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Gelt River |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY55NW.jpg "Gelt River" D4NY55SE.jpg "Gelt River" single or double wiggly line; a river item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Images © Carlisle Library |
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evidence:- | perhaps old map:- Cooper 1808 |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to
1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips,
Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808. click to enlarge COP3.jpg tapering wiggly line; river item:- JandMN : 86 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Gelt River |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of
Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles
to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R
Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843. FD02NY55.jpg "Gelt R." item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Gelt, River |
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source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2NY55.jpg "Gelt R." wiggly line, river item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Gelt, River |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland,
Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H
Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913. PST2NY55.jpg "Gelt. R." wiggly line item:- JandMN : 162.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old drawing:- |
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source data:- | Drawing, Gelt Bridge Looking Down the River, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Hayton,
Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835. click to enlarge PR1016.jpg An unfinished viaduct viaduct towers above a river which fills the foreground and beside which a single fisherman sits. A small stone building stands on the river's right bank. To either side of composition rise wooded riverbanks; a flock of birds rise overhead. numbered & inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom left:- "No 18 Gelt Bridge looking down the River JWC 1835" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.16 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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MN photo:- |
In Gelt Woods, running through and eroding sandstone. |
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CGX54.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX55.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX56.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX57.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX58.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX59.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX60.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX61.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX62.jpg (taken 1.12.2017) CGX64.jpg Overhang, near Bryan's Leap (taken 1.12.2017) CGX65.jpg Overhang, near Bryan's Leap (taken 1.12.2017) |
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CBG44.jpg From High Gelt Bridge, (taken 28.7.2014) BMM62.jpg From High Gelt Bridge; a dry summer. (taken 11.8.2006) BPX25.jpg From Low Gelt Bridge. (taken 16.1.2009) CBG56.jpg At Greenwell, (taken 28.7.2014) |
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