Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	weir, Newby Bridge
site name:-	Leven, River
locality:-	Newby Bridge
civil parish:-	Staveley-in-Cartmel (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-	Satterthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	weir
coordinates:-	SD36798640
1Km square:-	SD3686
10Km square:-	SD38
evidence:-	old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-	Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.   goto source Page 18:-  "[drainage/floods] ... There is a weir below Newby Bridge, to serve a corn mill. Now, the days of weirs and watermills are coming to an end. In these days of steam engines it is not to be endured that hundreds of acres should be turned into swamps, and hundreds of lives lost by fever, ague, and rheumatism, for the sake of a waterpower, which pays perhaps thirty pounds or forty pounds a-year. We say this of watermills generally; and in regard to the need of sufficient arterial drainage, we speak of the shores of Windermere in particular. The expense of carrying off the utmost surplus of the waters in the wettest season would be presently repaid, here as anywhere else, by the improved value of the land and house property, relieved from the nuisance of flood."

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