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The River Lyvennet is a
The River Lyvennet is a river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater
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flowing through the county
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of Cumbria
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in England
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.
The source of the Lyvennet (as Lyvennet Beck) is to be found close to Robin Hood's Grave on Crosby Ravensworth
Crosby Ravensworth is a village and civil parish in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. The village is about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of the M6 motorway, and Shap. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 538, decreasing to 517 ...
Moor, an area rich in ancient
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remains.
From there, the beck
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flows northwards through Crosby Ravensworth, Mauld's Meaburn and King's Meaburn, emerging as the River Lyvennet.
The river is joined by the River Leith shortly before the Lyvennet's own confluence with the River Eden.
Several Pedigree cattle herds are named after the river including Lyvennet Simmentals of Greystone House, King's Meaburn.
The Lyvennet valley may preserve the name of Taliesin
Taliesin ( , ; 6th century AD) was an early Brittonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the ''Book of Taliesin''. Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts ...
's "Llwyfenydd" Hogg, A. H. A. (1946) 'Llwyfenydd', Antiquity, (80), pp. 210–11 and would thus be associated with the post-Roman Brythonic kingdom of Rheged
Rheged () was one of the kingdoms of the ''Hen Ogledd'' ("Old North"), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages. It is recorded in several poetic and ...
. The meaning of the Welsh word "llwyfen" is the elm tree.
References
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