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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


photograph
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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
image WS21P210, button  goto source
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.
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"LEGBERTHWAITE"
item:-  private collection : 10.9
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photograph
BNE04.jpg  Bridge over the leat above Legburthwaite.
(taken 5.2.2007)  

places:-  
NY31431940 Bridge End Farm (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31621930 bridge, Legburthwaite (Lakes)
NY31781887 bridge, Legburthwaite (2) (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY32041937 Drystone Knott (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY32971958 High Fells (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY318194 Lame John's (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31541936 Little How (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31841903 Lodge in the Vale, The (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31062022 milestone, Legburthwaite (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31871929 Mission Room (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31861944 Mousthwaite Cottage (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31831948 Oak House (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31851966 Old Green (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn) L
NY31591935 Smithy House (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31601930 smithy, Legburthwaite (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn) gone
NY32021900 Stanah (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31951882 Stybeck Farm (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31851892 Thirlmere Recreational Hall (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31201923 Embankment Cottages (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31911973 Legburthwaite Mill (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
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