Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Lyvennet Beck

Lyvennet Beck

runs into:-

Lyvennet, River

civil parish:-

Crosby Ravensworth (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

locality type:-

boundary (township?)

1Km square:-

NY6215 (etc etc)

10Km square:-

NY61

BME55.jpg At Crosby Ravensworth.
(taken 30.5.2006)
photograph

CDJ43.jpg At Maulds Meaburn.
(taken 20.6.2015)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 8)
placename:- Lyvennet Beck

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 14 16)
OS County Series (Wmd 21 4)

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.
shows some nice example of ox bows which are still the parish boundary

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.

Sax9NY61.jpg
item:- private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

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.

JAN3NY61.jpg
Double wiggly line, tapering to single.
item:- JandMN : 88
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)
placename:- Livennet Beck River

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.

MD10NY61.jpg
"Livennet Beck R"
item:- JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
placename:- Livenet River

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.

SMP2NYK.jpg
"Livenet R."
Wiggly line.
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760

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.