Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Pow Maughan

runs into:-

Eden, River

civil parish:-

Wetheral (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY4552 (etc etc)

10Km square:-

NY45

BXR86.jpg At Beck Bridge,
(taken 30.11.2012)
photograph

CBE72.jpg (taken 21.7.2104)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 5)
placename:- Pow Maughan

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 24 10)

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.

Sax9NY45.jpg
item:- private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)

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.

SP11NY45.jpg
wiggly line, runs into the Eden
item:- private collection : 16
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.

JAN3NY45.jpg
Single wiggly line.
item:- JandMN : 88
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86)

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.

OG86m065.jpg
In mile 66, Cumberland. "a Rill"
drawn across the road.
item:- JandMN : 73
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)

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.

MD12NY45.jpg
Running by Aglionby and into the Eden.
item:- JandMN : 90
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 232)

source data:-

Road strip map, road map, pl.232, part of The Road from Tinmouth to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Northumberland and Cumberland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.

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.

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)

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.

D4NY45NW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river by Wheelbarrowhall
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-

NY45515321 Beck Bridge (Wetheral)

NY46585083 bridge, Wetheral (Wetheral)

NY46495081 bridge, Wetheral (2) (Wetheral)

NY44255622 Powmaughan Bridge (Wetheral)

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