Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	roman site, Kirk Stead
	suggested
	Diana's Temple
	Temple of Diana
locality:-	Levens Park
civil parish:-	Levens (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	roman site
locality type:-	temple
coordinates:-	SD50468587 (estimate)
1Km square:-	SD5085
10Km square:-	SD58
references:-	OS County Series
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 8)  placename:-  Diana's Temple
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 text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)  placename:-  Kirkstead
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.   goto source Page 153:-  "..." "At Levens, ... is a fair stone bridge over the Kent, on the south side of which river are ruins of an antient building now called Kirkstead, said to have been a temple of Diana, ...the park well stocked with fallow deer and almost equally divided by the river is a spring called the Dropping well, that petrifies moss, wood, leaves, &c."
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag placename:-  Kirkshead
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.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1843 part 2 p.362  "... we find in Camden's account of Westmoreland allusion made to the ruins of one ancient round structure, which has always been considered to have been a temple dedicated to Diana, but which is now known by the name of Kirkshead. Many such instances will be found in the ancient monuments of Scotland. Sometimes there are two circles"

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