Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Maulds Meaburn, Crosby Ravensworth

Maulds Meaburn, Crosby Ravensworth

Maulds Meaburn

civil parish:-

Crosby Ravensworth (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY62531635 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY6216

10Km square:-

NY61

BME41.jpg Lower part of the village, from the bridge.
(taken 30.5.2006)
photograph

BWF55.jpg It's Spring.
(taken 13.4.2012)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 12)
placename:- Maulds Meaburn

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:- Malsmeborn

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.

Sax9NY51.jpg
Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus. "Malsmeborn"
item:- private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd)
placename:- Malmesborne

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.

SP14NY61.jpg
"Malmesborne"
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:- Malmeshorne

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.

JAN3NY51.jpg
"Malmeshorne"
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:- Mauds Meaburne

source data:-

Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Mauds Meaburne"

evidence:-

hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1670
placename:- Malsmeaborne

source data:-

Records, hearth tax returns, exchequer duplicates, Westmorland, 1670.
"Malsmeaborne"

evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)
placename:- Mauds Meaburn

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
"Mauds meaburn"
Circle, building and tower, in a park.
item:- JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
placename:- Maudomeburn

source data:-

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

SMP2NYK.jpg
"Maudomeburn"
Building, and a park.
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Malmsbor

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.

BO18NY51.jpg
"Malmsbor"
circle and line, in a park
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
placename:- Maulds Meaburn

source data:-

Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.

J5NY61NW.jpg
"Maulds Meaburn"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town?
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)

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.

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Page 162:- "..."
"At Meburn town head, in this parish, was born Lancelot Addison, who passed many years in travels over Europe and Africa, was rector of Milkston, c. Wilts, archdeacon of Coventry, and dean of Lichfield, and died 1703, being father of the celebrated Joseph, Gulston, governor of Fort St. George, and Lancelot, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, and three daughters."

evidence:-

old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805)
placename:- Maulds Meaburn

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.

CY24NY61.jpg
"Maulds Meaburn"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet
item:- JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Moulds Meaburn

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.

FD02NY61.jpg
"Moulds Meaburn"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

BTW46.jpg (taken 7.1.2011)
photograph

BNE97.jpg From by the weir on the Lyvennet.
(taken 23.2.2007)

hearsay:-

Lancelot Addison, father of Joseph Addison the essayist, was born here, 1632; there is an obelisk in a field near Hill Top farm celebrating the event.

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