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Rawthey, River
runs into:-    Lune, River

civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
civil parish:-   Middleton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   SD6894 (etc etc) 
10Km square:-   SD69
10Km square:-   SD79


photograph
BXW49.jpg  At Middleton Bridge,
(taken 18.2.2013)  
photograph
BOX91.jpg  At Straight Bridge.
(taken 31.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 35 12) 
placename:-  Rawthey, River
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.
OS County Series (Wmd 40 9) 

evidence:-   probably old map:- Lloyd 1573
source data:-   Map, hand coloured copper plate engraving, Angliae Regni, Kingdom of England, with Wales, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, authored by Humphrey Lloyd, Denbigh, Clwyd, drawn and engraved by Abraham Ortelius, Netherlands, 1573.
image  click to enlarge
Lld1Cm.jpg
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA1998.69
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
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.
image
Sax9SD69.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
image
MER5WmdA.jpg
double line with stream lines; river, running into the Lune 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
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.
image
SP14SD69.jpg
double line, into the Lune 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page

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.
image
JAN3SD79.jpg
image
JAN3SD68.jpg
Double wiggly line tapering to single. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
image  click to enlarge
SAN2Cm.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
image  click to enlarge
SEL7.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river; county boundary 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
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.
image
MD10SD68.jpg
Into the Lune. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Bather River
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
image
SMP2SDU.jpg
"Bather R."
Wiggly line. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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.
image
BO18SD69.jpg
wiggly line, into the Lune 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Roatha River
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.
image
J5SD69NE.jpg
image
J5SD69SE.jpg
"Roatha R."
image
J5SD69SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river; county boundary 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Images © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Routhey, River
item:-  trout
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.
image CAM2P154, button  goto source
Page 154:-  "..."
"Out of this lake there yearly passes up the river Routhey many very large trouts, and up the river Brathey great store of case, which are like char, but spawn at another season of the year. And although these two rivers do run a good way together in one channel before they disembogue into Windermere water, they are both very clear and bottomed alike, yet scarce ever any trouts are found in Brathey, or case in Rowthey. Some few salmon also, at the spawning season, come from the sea through the lake and up the river Rowthey, but none ever up the Brathey."

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24SD69.jpg
image
CY24SD79.jpg
river; county boundary, in the wrong place 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
image  click to enlarge
COP4.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river; county boundary 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
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.
image
GAR2SD69.jpg
wiggly line, river 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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photograph
BOX92.jpg  At Straight Bridge.
(taken 31.3.2008)  
photograph
BYK35.jpg  At Millthrop Bridge.
(taken 31.5.2013)  
photograph
BWY20.jpg (taken 22.7.2012)  
photograph
BWY34.jpg  At Uldale Bridge,
(taken 22.7.2012)  
photograph
BWY35.jpg  At Uldale Bridge,
(taken 22.7.2012)  
photograph
BYZ36.jpg  At High Wardses Bridge,
(taken 6.8.2013)  
photograph
CER63.jpg  Below Handley's Bridge,
(taken 7.3.2016)  
photograph
BYZ88.jpg  At footbridge, Cautley,
(taken 6.8.2013)  
photograph
Click to enlarge
BRH42.jpg  Rawthey valley from Soolbank, Sedbergh on the right.
(taken 13.8.2009)  
photograph
BVI33.jpg  At the New Bridge,
(taken 10.9.2011)  
photograph
BXU19.jpg  At Crook Holme ford,
(taken 9.1.2013)  
photograph
BXF96.jpg  Waterfall,
(taken 28.8.2012)  
photograph
BXG01.jpg (taken 28.8.2012)  

MN photo:-  
Limestone rocks.

photograph
BXG03.jpg (taken 28.8.2012)  
photograph
BXG04.jpg (taken 28.8.2012)  
photograph
BXG05.jpg (taken 28.8.2012)  
photograph
BXG06.jpg (taken 28.8.2012)  

places:-  
SD65069127 Birks Mill (Sedbergh)
SD63939112 Brigflatts Flow Measurement Station (Sedbergh)
SD63999105 Brigflatts Ford (Sedbergh)
SD74059525 Duckholmes (Sedbergh)
SD69019485 ford, Sedbergh (2) (Sedbergh)
SD72099724 Hall Intack Bridge (Sedbergh / Ravenstonedale)
SD70569764 Handley's Bridge (Sedbergh / Ravenstonedale)
SD69519599 High Wardses Bridge (Sedbergh) L
SD63459092 Holme Ford (Middleton)
SD63919111 Lords' Dub Loups, Brigflatts (Sedbergh)
SD63769116 Lords' Dub (Sedbergh)
SD63018975 Middleton Bridge (Middleton / Sedbergh) L
SD66139138 Millthrop Bridge (Sedbergh) L
SD66519194 New Bridge (Sedbergh) L
SD71349786 Rawthey Bridge (Sedbergh / Ravenstonedale) L
SD64309089 Rawthey Bridge (Sedbergh) L
SD71969733 Stone Bridge (Ravenstonedale / Sedbergh)
SD67749235 Straight Bridge (Sedbergh) L
SD72779674 Uldale Bridge (Sedbergh)
SD73629575 Uldale Force (Sedbergh)
SD71499761 Ward's Intake Bridge (Ravenstonedale / Sedbergh)
SD734958 waterfall, Uldale (Ravenstonedale)
NY62848959 Waters Meeting boundary feature 
SD64169089 weir, Brigflatts (Sedbergh)
SD66299179 weir, Sedbergh (Sedbergh)
SD63909112 Lords' Dub (Sedbergh)
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