Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Poltross Burn

Poltross Burn

runs into:-

Irthing, River

civil parish:-

Upper Denton (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

locality type:-

boundary

locality type:-

county boundary

1Km square:-

NY6366 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY66

county:-

Northumberland

current boundary

locality:-

Cumbria boundary

old boundary

locality:-

Cumberland boundary

BOV45.jpg At the footbridge, Gilsland.
(taken 21.3.2008)
photograph

BOV53.jpg Running into the Irthing, Gilsland.
(taken 21.3.2008)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 12 16)
placename:- Poltross Burn

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:- Poltrose Flu.

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.

Sax9NY66.jpg
"Poltrose flu:"
County boundary.
item:- private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)
placename:- Poltrose fl.

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.

SP11NY66.jpg
"Poltrose fl"
wiggly line, runs into the Irthing; county boundary
item:- private collection : 16
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
placename:- Pultrosse

source data:-

Poem, Poly Olbion, by Michael Drayton, published by published by John Marriott, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe, and others? London, part 1 1612, part 2 1622.

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page 167:- "... Pultrosse is her Page, ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:- Poltrose Fl.

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberlande and Westmorlande, by Michael Drayton, probably engraved by William Hole, scale about 4 or 5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Mariott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.

DRY503.jpg
"Poltrose fl"
River, naiad.
item:- JandMN : 168
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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.

JAN3NY66.jpg
Single wiggly line; county boundary.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86)
placename:- Poltrose Fluvius

source data:-

Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from Tinmouth ... to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.

OG86m050.jpg
In mile 52, Northumberland, Cumberland. "Poltrose fluv: / Enter Cumberland"
river drawn across the road, and county boundary.
item:- JandMN : 73
Image © see bottom of page

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.

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SAN2Cm.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river, county boundary with Northumberland
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)
placename:- Poltrose River

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.

MD12NY66.jpg
"Poltrose R."
With the county boundary drawn alongside.
item:- JandMN : 90
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evidence:-

old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 232)
placename:- Poltrose Flu.

source data:-

Road strip map, road map, pl.232, part of The Road from Tinmouth to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Northumberland and Cumberland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.

B232m50.jpg
"enter Cumberland / Poltrose Flu"
Narrow river, county boundary; mile 52+.
item:- JandMN : 65.232
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.

BO18NY76.jpg
wiggly line, county boundary Cumberland Northumberland, into the Irthing
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY66NW.jpg

D4NY66SW.jpg
"Poultross Burn"
single or double wiggly line; a river into the Irthing, and county boundary
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Images © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
placename:- Polt Rosse

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 179:- "..."
"... a lytle water or mere called Polt Rosse, the which devideth the county of Northumberland on the east side from Cumbreland. ..."

places:-

NY63366647 bridge, Gilsland (Upper Denton)

NY63436623 footbridge, Gilsland (Upper Denton)

NY63386641 mill, Gilsland (Upper Denton)

NY63436624 railway bridge, Gilsland (Upper Denton)

NY61736391 Temon Bridge (Upper Denton)

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