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Kent, River
runs into:-    Kentmere Tarn
runs into:-    Kent Estuary
civil parish:-   Kentmere (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Over Staveley (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Hugill (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Strickland Roger (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Strickland Ketel (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Natland (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Helsington (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Witherslack (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Beetham (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Heversham (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Levens (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY4506 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY40
10Km square:-   SD59
10Km square:-   SD48

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BRK30.jpg  Head of the river in Hall Cove,
(taken 9.9.2009)  
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BPS59.jpg  Water, in Kentmere valley.
(taken 17.10.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 1) 
placename:-  Kent, River
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 (Wmd 27 6) 
OS County Series (Wmd 27 9) 
OS County Series (Wmd 27 13) 
OS County Series (Wmd 33 2) 
OS County Series (Wmd 33 6) 
OS County Series (Wmd 33 11) 
OS County Series (Wmd 33 16) 
OS County Series (Wmd 38 4) 
OS County Series (Wmd 38 12) 
OS County Series (Wmd 42 4) 
OS County Series (Wmd 42 7) 
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42) 
item:-  tides
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.
"Ordinary Spring Tides flow to this point"
labelled at SD48808470 
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 11) 
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.
"Ordinary Spring Tides flow to this point"
evidence:-   old map:- Gough 1350s-60s
placename:-  Kent
source data:-   Map, colour photozincograph copy, reduced size facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, scale about 28.5 miles to 1 inch, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1875.
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"Kent"
Flowing from east of Kendal to the sea. 
item:-  JandMN : 33
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evidence:-   old map:- Gough 1350s-60s
placename:-  Kent
source data:-   Map, lithograph facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, 20 miles to 1 inch? published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1935.
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"Kent"
Flowing from east of Kendal to the sea. 
item:-  JandMN : 34
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evidence:-   old map:- Ptolemy 1540
source data:-   Map, copy, uncoloured lithograph? Anglia II Nova Tabula, New Map of England, scale about 50 miles to 1 inch, data in the Geographia by Claudius Ptolemy, engraved by Sebastian Munster, Basle, Switzerland, 1540.
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tapering wiggly double line; river 
item:-  private collection : 131
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evidence:-   old map:- Lloyd 1573
placename:-  Cand Flu.
source data:-   Map, hand coloured copper plate engraving, 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.
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"Cand flu."
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA1998.69
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evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
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.
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item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
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double line with stream lines; river, running into the sea, the upper reaches wrong 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Keer 1605
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605 edition perhaps 1676.
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double wiggly line, tapering to single; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.110
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cum/EW) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, scale about 36 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, about 1610-11, published by Thomas Bassett, Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell, St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1676?
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tapering wiggly line 
item:-  private collection : 85
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Can flu
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Can flu"
double line, and estuary 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
placename:-  Ken
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.
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page 137:-  "...
Upon the East from these [Duddon and Leven], cleere Ken her beautie showes,
From Kendale comming in, which she doth please to grace,
First with her famous Type, then lastly in her race,
Her name upin those Sands doth liberally bequeath,
Whereas the Muse awhile may sit her downe to breath,
And after walke along tow'rds Yorkshire on her way,
On which shee strongly hopes to get a noble day."
"... ..."
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page 161:-  "...
Where Can first creeping forth, her feet hath scarcely found,
But gives that Dale her name, where Kendale towne doth stand,
...
Then keeping on her course, though having in her traine,
But Sput, a little Brooke, then Winster doth retaine,
Tow'rds the Verginian Sea, by her two mighty Falls,
(Which the brave Roman tongue, her Catadupa calls)
This eager River seemes outragiousy to rore,
And counterfetting Nyle, to deafe the neighboring shore,
..."
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page 162:-  "...
To the Hibernick Gulfe, when soone the River hasts,
And to those queachy Sands, from whence her selfe she casts,
She likewise leaves her name as every place where she,
In her cleare course doth come, by her should honored be."
evidence:-   old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:-  Ken Flu.
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.
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"Ken flu:"
River, naiad pouring out water; his rivers are muddled.. 
item:-  JandMN : 168
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evidence:-   table of distances:- Simons 1635
source data:-   Table of distances, uncoloured engraving, Westmerland ie Westmorland, with a thumbnail map, scale about 42 miles to 1 inch, by Mathew Simons, published in A Direction for the English Traviller, 1635.
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on thumbnail map 
item:-  private collection : 50.39
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evidence:-   old map:- Jenner 1643
source data:-   Table of distances, with map, hand coloured engraving, Westmerland ie Westmorland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Jacob van Langeren, published by Thomas Jenner, Cornhill, London, 1643.
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wiggly line 
item:-  private collection : 52.Wmd
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
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.
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Double wiggly line tapering to single. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In mile 0, Westmoreland. 
River through the town. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
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evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38) 
placename:-  Kent Flu.
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, continuation of the Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In mile 255, Westmoreland. 
River alongside the road:-  "Kent Flu"
and running through Kendal to the north. 
In mile 256, Westmoreland. 
River crossed by a turning into Kendal at:-  "Neither bridg"
item:-  JandMN : 21
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
placename:-  Kene fl.
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.
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"Kene fl."
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (EW) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, England, including Wales, scale about 27 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale Awnsham and John Churchil, London, about 1695.
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tapering wiggly line 
item:-  JandMN : 339
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Can Flu.
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Can Flu."
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Fiennes 1698
placename:-  Can, River
item:-  salmon; salmon wier; salmon spear
source data:-   Travel book, manuscript record of Journeys through England including parts of the Lake District, by Celia Fiennes, 1698.
"The River Can which gives name to the town [Kendal] is pretty large but full of rocks and stones that makes shelves and falls in the water, its stor'd with plenty of good fish and there are great falls of water partly naturall and added to by putting more stones in manner of wyers at which they catch salmon when they leape with speares; the roareing of the water at these places sometymes does foretell wet weather, they do observe when the water roares most in the fall on the northside it will be faire, if on the southside of the town it will be wet; some of them are falls as high as a house ..."
evidence:-   old map, descriptive text:- Bowen 1720 (plate 93) 
placename:-  Kent Flu.
placename:-  Kan Flu.
placename:-  Kant Flu.
source data:-   Strip maps, uncoloured engravings, road maps, The Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Lancashire and Westmorland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.
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"Kendal ... So called from its scituation on Kan or Kant Flu. ..."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.100
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Can, River
placename:-  Ken, River
source data:-   Maps, Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742; published 1742-49.
"... The S. part of the County [Westmorland] is divided into 2 by the Can or Ken, which gives name to Kendale ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Can River
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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"Can R."
tapering wiggly line 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Can, River
placename:-  Ken, River
placename:-  Kent, River
source data:-   Atlas, 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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Page 1020:-  "..."
"The River Can, Ken, or Kent, rises at Kentmere, and being joined by two large Rivers before it comes to Kendale, they render it a large Stream, with which is passeth thro' a Stony Channel abounding with Fish, into Solway Frith."
evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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Wiggly line; from Kentmere Tarn. 
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Wiggly line. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Can River
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.
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wiggly line, from Kentmere Tarn 
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"Can R."
double line with stream lines 
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double line with stream lines and river mouth, into an estuary 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"KENT RIVER"
river; and a mill lade and race for Castle Mills 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Kent River
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Kent R."
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"Kent R."
single or double wiggly line; river 
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"KENT RIVER"
river mouth 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   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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Page 177:-  "... A noble river, the Kent, is discovered flowing briskly through fertile fields, and visiting the town [Kendal] in its whole length. It is crossed by a handsome bridge, where three great roads coincide, from Sedbergh, Kirkby-Stephen, and Penrith. ..."
"..."
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Page 185:-  "... from the crown of it [Force Bridge] have a very singular romantic view of the river both ways, working its passage in a narrow deep channel of rocks, hanging over it in a variety of forms, and streaming a thousand rills into the flood. The rocks in the bottom are strangely excavated into deep holes of various shapes, which, when the river is low, remain full of water, and from their depth are black as ink. ..."
"..."
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Page 186:-  "... The side of the Kent is famous for petrifying springs, that incrust vegetable bodies, such as moss, leaves of trees, &c. There is one on the park [Levens Park], called the Dropping-well."
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 213:-  "..."
"Oct. 9. ... I went up the castle-hill: ... by their [houses] side runs a fine brisk stream, over which there are three stone bridges: ..."
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Page 214:-  "... The remains of the castle are seated on a fine hill on the side of the river opposite the town; ..."
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Page 215:-  "[from the castle] ... There is a good view of the town and river, with a fertile open valley, though which it winds."
"After dinner I went along the Millthorp turnpike, four miles to see the falls, or force of the river Kent; ... came to Sizergh ... I soon came to the river; it works its way in a narrow and deep rocky channel, overhung with trees. The calmness and brightness of the evening, the roar of the waters, and the thumping of huge hammers at an iron forge not far distant, made it a singular walk; ..."
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Kent River
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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"Kent River"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Can, River
source data:-   Book, 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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Page 147:-  "..."
"... Kendale, or Candale, q.d. the Valley on the Can, a river which runs over rocks through this valley, and gives name to it, on whose western banks is the populous town of Candale or Kirkeby Candale, ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Kent, River
item:-  salmon leap
source data:-   Book, 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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Page 150:-  "..."
"The rivers of this county [Westmorland] are but small, and only three that can properly be called rivers carry their name to the sea: ... The 3d is Kent which rises in Kentmere and washes the vale which from thence receives the name of Kendale, and empties itself into the sea below Levens."
""Kent river is of a good depth not well to be occupyed with botes for rowlling stones and other moles. Yt risith of very many heddes be likelihood springing within the same shire. A 2 mile about Kendale they come to one good botom and Kentdale town that standeth on the west side of it. Seven or 8 miles from Kendale is a mere commonly called Kenmore." In it is a salmon leap."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Kent River"
river from Kentmere Tarn, running into its estuary 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Aikin 1790 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Ken River
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Aikin, London, 1790.
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"Ken R."
river 
item:-  JandMN : 51
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  zoology; fish; otter
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1794 p.113  "..."
"Before quitting the park [Levens Park], we came to high-water mark; for, the tides reach thus far into the country at the time of spring-floods, the distance from the sea being not less than twenty miles; consequently this part of the river is not more than eighteen or twenty yards above low-water mark, which is a very gentle ascent when compared with that we had been examining; for, the Kent falls nearly fifty yards, by means of streams and cascades, in the space of less than five miles between Kendal and Levens. The watery inhabitants of this limpid current may be thus enumerated: the fresh-water muscle, Mytilus Cygneus; the cray-fish, Cancer Astacus; the samlet, Salmo; the trout, S. Fario; the salmon, S. Salar; the eel, Muraena Anguilla; the bull-head, Costus Gobio; the pink, Cyprinus Phoxinus; the loach, Cobitis Toenia. About high-water-mark are found the flounder, Pleuronectes Flessius; and the smelt, Salmo Eperlanus. The otter may be added, without much impropriety, to the catalogue, the common enemy of the finny tribe."
"(To be concluded in a future number.)"
evidence:-   old map:- Bailey 1797
placename:-  Kent River
source data:-   Map, soil etc, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by J Bailey, engraved by Neele, Strand, published by Messrs Robinson, Paternoster Row and G Nicol, Pall Mall, London, 1797.
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"Kent R."
river 
item:-  Armitt Library : A680.3
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Ken, River
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 267-268  "Cross the Ken River."
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page 315-316  "Cross the Ken River."
twice 
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page 333-334  "Cross the Ken River"
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Skrine 1801
placename:-  Ken River
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, rivers in Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire and Cheshire, scale about 23 miles to 1 inch, by Henry Skrine, published by P Elmsly, London, 1801.
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"Ken R."
river 
item:-  JandMN : 421
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Baker 1802
placename:-  Kenken, River
placename:-  Ken, River
source data:-   Perspective road map with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802.
pp.25-26:-  "... Cartmel ... between two bays of the sea, the one formed by the river Kenken, ..."
"..."
"The road from Kendal to Shap, after passing the fertile vale of the river Ken, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Kent River
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Kent R."
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
source data:-   Map, Lancashire, scale about 18 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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tapering wiggly line; river; county boundary 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.6
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Ken River
source data:-   Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Ken R."
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Ken River
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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Lw18.jpg
"Ken R."
river 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Ken River
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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COP4.jpg
"Ken R."
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Kent River
source data:-   Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis, Finch Lane, London, 1835?
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WAL5.jpg
"Kent R. / Kent River"
 
item:-  JandMN : 63
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Wallis 1810
placename:-  Ken
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 16 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 Ken rises from a lake called Kent Mere, near Ambleside, and running S.E. passes by Kendal, when it forms an angle, and turning S. falls into the Irish sea a few miles below Burton"
evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Kent, River
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
image
OT02SD58.jpg
"River Kent"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820, published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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HA18.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.58
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 41:-  "The Kent rising in Kentmere, receives the Sprint from Longsleddale, and the Mint from Bannisdale. It washes the skirts of Kendal, and enters the sea near Milnthorp, where it is joined by the Belo."
"..."
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Page 158:-  "... 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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Page 159:-  "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."
evidence:-   old map:- Perrot 1823
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 38 miles to 1 inch, by Aristide Michel Perrot, engraved by Migneret, 1823, published by Etienne Ledoux, 9 Rue Guenegaud, Paris, France, 1824-48.
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PER2.jpg
tapering wiggly line 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.45
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evidence:-   :- Hullmandel 1826
source data:-   image  click to enlarge
HUL102.jpg
Print, uncoloured lithograph, Force Bridge, near Sedgwick, Westmorland, drawn by Miss I Cropper and Miss S Atkins, published by Charles Hullmandel, London, 1826.  "Drawn on Stone by I.C & S.A. / Printed by C. Hullmandel. / FORCE BRIDGE. / NEAR SEDGWICK"
item:-  
Armitt Library : ALMA370.2
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
image FD01P018, button  goto source
Page 18:-  "... The river enters the grounds [of Levens Hall] by a cascade of foaming whiteness, and pursues its way amid lawns, sweetly diversified with trees, whilst herds of deer"
"'-- across their green-sward bound,
Through shade and sunny gleam;
And the swan glides past them, with the sound
Of Kent's rejoicing stream.'"
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Kent River
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.
image
FD02SD47.jpg
"Kent River"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Kent River
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.
image
FD02SD47.jpg
"Kent River"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Kent, River
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.
image
GAR2NY40.jpg
"Kent R."
wiggly line, river 
image
GAR2SD58.jpg
"R. Kent"
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Kent, River
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.
image
PST2SD58.jpg
"R. Kent"
wiggly line, running into Kent Estuary 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35 (vol.1 no.22) 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Kendal, from the Castle, Westmorland, drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by W le Petit, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1832-35.
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PR0008.jpg
vol.1 pl.22 in the set of prints, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "T. Allom. / W. Le Petit. / KENDAL, FROM THE CASTLE. / FISHER, SON &CO. LONDON, 1832."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.8
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evidence:-   old painting:- 
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, water mill on the River Kent, by Paul Sandby, forge, Levens, Westmorland, England, 1760s-70s
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PR0826.jpg
summertime; view of a small forge standing in centre of composition on a grassy islet formed by the convergence of a shallow hillside stream and the River Kent. Composition is framed to left by a tall tree. 
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1905.10A.4
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old painting:- 
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, View on the River Kent, Force Bridge, Sedgwick, Westmorland, by Paul Sandby, 1760s-70s.
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PR0811.jpg
Foreshortened view of the small natural weir of a river spanned in centre of composition by a stone bridge. Trees line either bank. 
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1905.10A.2
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Kent, River
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, View of Force Bridge and a Fall of the River Kent Five Miles South of Kendal, Sedgwick, Westmorland, by Paul Sandby, 1760s-70s.
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PR0810.jpg
Foreshortened view of the small natural weir of a river spanned in centre of composition by a stone bridge. Trees line either bank. 
inscribed at lower edge:-  "View of Force Bridge and a Fall of the River Kent 5 miles South of Kendal"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1905.10A.1
Image © Tullie House Museum

photograph
CBE12.jpg  Into the reservoir,
(taken 15.7.2014)  
photograph
CBD79.jpg (taken 15.7.2014)  
photograph
CAC36.jpg  At a footbridge,
(taken 12.3.2014)  
photograph
CAC37.jpg  Depth gauge at footbridge,
(taken 12.3.2014)  
photograph
BPT03.jpg  At Waterfoot Bridge.
(taken 17.10.2008)  
photograph
BPS62.jpg  Water.
(taken 9.10.2008)  
photograph
BTX74.jpg  At Ford Bridge, Burneside,
(taken 22.1.2011)  
photograph
BQE04.jpg  Kendal Riverside Improvement Scheme, Kendal.
(taken 4.3.2009)  
photograph
BQE05.jpg  Kendal Riverside Improvement Scheme, Kendal.
(taken 4.3.2009)  
photograph
BLU73.jpg  Weir below Stramongate Bridge, Kendal.
(taken 9.4.2006)  
photograph
BPI71.jpg (taken 16.6.2008)  
photograph
BJU78.jpg  River gorge south of Hawes Bridge, Natland.
(taken 12.9.2005)  
photograph
BJU79.jpg  River gorge south of Hawes Bridge, Natland.
(taken 12.9.2005)  
photograph
CCP69.jpg  At Force Bridge,
(taken 13.3.2015)  
photograph
CCP67.jpg  At Force Bridge,
(taken 13.3.2015)  
photograph
CCP68.jpg  At Force Bridge,
(taken 13.3.2015)  
mapping:-  
[Force Jump, Kentmere]
places:-  
SD47039873 Barley Bridge Fish Pass (Over Staveley)
SD47029873 Barley Bridge (Over Staveley) L
SD50738668 Basin Gill (Sedgwick / Levens)
SD50088541 Black Pool (Levens)
SD51168912 Bodelford (Natland / Helsington)
SD49879661 Bowston Bridge (Strickland Ketel / Strickland Roger) L
SD50529580 Burneside Bridge (Strickland Ketel / Strickland Roger)
NY45910630 bridge, Kentmere (2) (Kentmere)
SD50609586 Burneside Papermill (Strickland Ketel)
SD47219829 Chadwick's Mill (Over Staveley)
SD50098549 Charley Island (Levens)
SD49269730 Cowan Head Papermill (Strickland Ketel)
NY44800728 dam, Kentmere (Kentmere) gone
SD51659363 Dockray Footbridge (Kendal)
SD51559356 Dockray Hall Mill (Kendal)
SD46399984 Fellfoot Mill (Over Staveley)
SD50888752 footbridge, Helsington (Helsington)
NY46030463 footbridge, Kentmere (2) (Kentmere)
NY46040440 Force Jumb (Kentmere)
SD50629569 Ford Bridge (Strickland Ketel)
SD50818720 ford, Sedgwick (Sedgwick / Helsington)
SD51869276 Gooseholme Bridge (Kendal)
SD51379037 Helsington Mill (Helsington) L
SD51709233 Jenning's Yard Bridge (Kendal)
NY444080 Kentmere Reservoir (Kentmere)
SD51249488 Ladyford Bridge (Skelsmergh / Strickland Roger)
SD49618522 Levens Bridge (Levens) L
SD50798655 Levens Force (Levens / Sedgwick)
SD51609324 Long Drought (Kendal)
SD50068531 Long Rake (Levens)
NY45800399 Low Bridge (Kentmere)
SD51819108 Low Mills (Kendal) gone?
SD47069869 mill, Staveley (Over Staveley)
SD51669193 Nether Bridge (Kendal)
SD47049866 Old Mill (Over Staveley) L
SD51629354 railway bridge, Kendal (Kendal)
SD51058857 Robin Hoods Island (Helsington)
SD46719945 Scroggs Bridge (Hugill)
SD46789938 Scroggs Mill (Over Staveley)
SD46679949 smelter, Hugill (Hugill) gone
SD51859297 Stramongate Bridge (Kendal)
SD50198567 Trenmire Ferry (Levens / Hincaster) gone
SD49788533 Turn Hole (Levens)
NY45590118 Ullthwaite Bridge (Hugill)
NY45570121 Ullthwaite Mill (Hugill)
NY44020889 Upper Kentmere Falls (Kentmere)
SD51739309 Victoria Bridge (Kendal)
SD58 waterfall, Levens (Levens) imagined
SD51168911 waterfall, Natland (Natland / Helsington)
SD50708693 waterfall, Sedgwick (Sedgwick / Helsington)
NY45630196 Waterfoot Bridge (Kentmere)
SD49719680 weir, Bowston (Strickland Ketel)
SD51899293 weir, Kendal (Kendal)
SD47059873 Barley Bridge Weir (Over Staveley)
SD46689959 fulling mill, Over Staveley (Over Staveley) gone
SD49869663 Bowston Mill (Strickland Roger) gone
SD49079782 mill, Strickland Roger (Strickland Roger)
SD51158908 Hawes Bridge (Natland / Helsington) L
SD50758685 Force Bridge bridge 
SD50748680 waterfall, Sedgwick (2) (Sedgwick / Helsington)
SD452792 Kent Viaduct (Arnside / Meathop and Ulpha)
SD59 Kent Valley ()
SD51629256 flood notice, Kendal (Kendal)
SD51699265 Miller Bridge (Kendal)
SD50748674 Bassinghyll Gunpowder Mills (Sedgwick)
SD50888742 Sedgwick Gunpowder Mills (Helsington) gone
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