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Levens Bridge, Levens
Levens Bridge
site name:-   Kent, River
civil parish:-   Levens (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
coordinates:-   SD49618522
1Km square:-   SD4985
10Km square:-   SD48

photograph
BJR02.jpg (taken 2.8.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 7) 
placename:-  Levens Bridge
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.
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Levens Bridge
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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"Levens bridge"
Over the River Kent. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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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 line across a stream; bridge 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.110
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Levens Bridge
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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SP14SD48.jpg
"Levens Bridge"
circle, tower; no bridge marked 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   table of distances:- Simons 1635
placename:-  Levens Bridge
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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"Levens bridge S"
and tabulated distances 
item:-  private collection : 50.39
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Levens Bridge
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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JAN3SD48.jpg
"[Levens bridge]"
No bridge symbol; the label is used for Levens Hall. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Levens Bridge
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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"Levens Bridge"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Levens Bridge
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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"Levens B."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Levensbridge
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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"Levensbridge"
double line across the Kent, also a circle and line 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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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J5SD48NE.jpg
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
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.
image CAM2P153, button  goto source
Page 153:-  "..."
"At Levens, ... is a fair stone bridge over the Kent, ..."
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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CY24SD48.jpg
road across a stream; bridge over the Kent 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
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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road across stream; bridge? 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
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.
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OT02SD48.jpg
Implied by a road crossing the stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   :- Hullmandel 1826
placename:-  Levens Bridge
source data:-   image  click to enlarge
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Print, uncoloured lithograph, Levens Bridge, with Whitbarrow Scar in the distance, Levens, 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. / LEVENS BRIDGE, / WITH WHITBARROW SCAR IN THE DISTANCE."
item:-  
Armitt Library : ALMA370.6
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evidence:-   old print:- Bradley 1901
placename:-  Levens Bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, Levens Bridge, Levens, Westmorland, by Joseph Pennell, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.
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On page 323 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. 
printed at lower centre:-  "Joseph Pennell"
printed at bottom:-  "Levens Bridge."
item:-  JandMN : 464.87
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Levens Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LEVENS BRIDGE / / A6 / LEVENS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75543 / SD4960785224"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Bridge. Probably C17, widened and extensively repaired and rebuilt during C18 and C19. Limestone rubble with roughly-cut voussoirs. 2 arches with cutwaters between. Flat sandstone coping to parapets. Attached at South-West corner to walls and gatepiers at entrance to Levens Hall (q.v.). Further information: CURWEN J.F. Records of Kendal Volume III pub. Titus Wilson 1920."
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