The River Leith is a watercourse in

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...

, a

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of northwestern England. Rising at

Shap Shap is a village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The village is in the historic county of Westmorland. The parish had a population of 1,221 in 2001, increasing slightly to ...

, the Leith flows north alongside the

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via Great and

Little Strickland Little Strickland is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is about from Penrith and from the small town of Appleby-in-Westmorland. The village has one place of worship and a teleph ...

before turning eastward at

Melkinthorpe Melkinthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lowther, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is near the villages of Hackthorpe and Cliburn. Circa 1870, it had a population of 99 as recorded in the I ...

. Having passed through Cliburn, the Leith flows into the

River Lyvennet The River Lyvennet is a river flowing through the county of Cumbria in England. The source of the Lyvennet (as Lyvennet Beck) is close to Robin Hood's Grave on Crosby Ravensworth Moor, an area rich in ancient remains. From there, the beck flows ...

at Cliburn Mill.

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