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Levers Water, Coniston
runs into:-    Levers Water Beck
Levers Water
Levers Water Reservoir
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
locality type:-   reservoir
coordinates:-   SD27929930 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2799
10Km square:-   SD29
altitude:-   1358 feet
altitude:-   414m

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CBT42.jpg (taken 17.9.2014)  
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CBT57.jpg  Depth gauge; reading downwards?
(taken 17.9.2014)  
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Lever Water
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Lever Water
source data:-   Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Lever Water"
outline with form lines; lake or tarn 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Levers Tarn
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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"Levers Tarn"
lake 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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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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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 36:-  "... Levers Water ... is situated in a wide valley, between the mountains Old Man and Wetherlam. ..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Levens Water
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 11:-  "... Proceeding in a northerly direction under the summit of the Old Man, Levens Water is discovered, a tarn about a mile in circumference, open only towards the south, being enclosed in every other direction, and making a beautiful picture with part of Coniston Water, the hills about Nibthwaite, and beyond, a strip of sea reaching westward from the river Leven. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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FD02SD28.jpg
Outline with form lines. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Levers Water
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Levers Wr."
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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BOD14.jpg (taken 3.9.2007)  
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BOD18.jpg  Dam and weir.
(taken 3.9.2007)  
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BWU58.jpg (taken 18.6.2012)  
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BOD19.jpg  Dam and weir.
(taken 3.9.2007)  
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CBT41.jpg (taken 17.9.2014)  
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CBT56.jpg (taken 17.9.2014)  
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