Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Legburthwaite, St John's Castlerigg etc

Legburthwaite, St John's Castlerigg etc

Legburthwaite

civil parish:-

St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY31821896 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY3118

10Km square:-

NY31

BNE03.jpg notice the leat
(taken 5.2.2007)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 16)
placename:- Legberthwaite

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:- Legburthwate

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.

Sax9NY21.jpg
Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus. "Legburthwate"
item:- private collection : 2
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evidence:-

old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:- Legburthwate

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.

MER8CumF.jpg
"Legburthwate"
circle
item:- JandMN : 169
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)
placename:- Legburthwate

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.

SP11NY31.jpg
"Legburthwate"
circle, tower
item:- private collection : 16
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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.

JAN3NY31.jpg
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)
placename:- Legburgthwate

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.

MD12NY21.jpg
"Legburgthwate"
Circle.
item:- JandMN : 90
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evidence:-

perhaps? descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
placename:- Langthwaite

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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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
Page 210:- "..."
"Oct. 8. I left Keswick, and took the Ambleside road, ... good country road, through sound but narrow and stony ones, very safe in broad day light. This is the case about Causeway foot and among Naddle-fells, to Langthwaite."

evidence:-

old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:- Legberthwaite

source data:-

Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.

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Page 117:- "... enter the manor of Legberthwaite, the property of Thomas Leathes, Esq; it consists of ten tenements, all arbitrary, which yield together about L.3 per annum. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick)
placename:- Legberthwaite

source data:-

Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside, scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.