Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of BritaineHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
Being past this, we find a forked arme of the sea called Kensands: into
the first of which diuerse waters doo run in one chanell, as it were
from foure principall heads, one of them comming from Grarrig hall,
another fr[=o] by west of Whinfield, & ioining with the first on the east
[Sidenote: Sprota.]
side of Skelmere parke. The third called Sprot or Sprota riseth at
Sloddale, & commeth downe by west of Skelmer parke, so that these two
brookes haue the aforesaid parke betwéene them, & fall into the fourth
east of Barneside, not verie farre in sunder. The fourth or last called
[Sidenote: Ken.]
Ken, commeth from Kentmers side, out of Ken moore, in a poole of a mile
compasse, verie well stored with fish, the head whereof, as of all the
baronie of Kendall is in Westmerland, & going to Stauelope, it taketh in
a rill from Chappleton Inges. Then leauing Colnehead parke by east, it
passeth by Barneside, to Kendall, Helston, Sigath, Siggeswijc,
Leuenbridge, Milnethorpe, and so into the sea. Certes this Ken is a
pretie déepe riuer, and yet not safelie to be aduentured vpon, with
boates and balingers, by reason of rolling stones, & other huge
substances that oft annoie & trouble the middest of the chanell there.
[Sidenote: Winstar.]
The other péece of the forked arme, is called Winstar, the hed wherof is
aboue Winstar chappell, & going downe almost by Carpmaunsell, &
Netherslake, it is not long yer it fall into the sea, or sands, for all
this coast, & a gulfe from the Ramside point to the Mealenasse, is so
pestered with sands, that it is almost incredible to sée how they
increase. Those also which inuiron the Kenmouth, are named Kensands: but
such as receiue the descent from the Fosse, Winander, and Sparke, are
called Leuesands, as I find by sufficient testimonie. The mouth or fall
of the Dodon also is not farre from this impechment: wherefore it is to
be thought, that these issues will yer long become verie noisome, if not
[Sidenote: Winander.]
choked vp altogither. The Winander water riseth about Cunbalrasestones,
from whence it goeth to Cangridge, where it maketh a méere: then to
Ambleside, and taking in yer it come there, two rilles on the left hand,
and one on the right that commeth by Clapergate, it maketh (as I take
it) the greatest méere, or fresh water in England; for I read it is ten
miles in length. Finallie, comming to one small chanell aboue Newbridge,
it reacheth not aboue six miles yer it fall into the sea. There is in
[Sidenote: Fosse.]
like sort a water, called the Fosse that riseth néere vnto Arneside, and
Tillerthwates, and goeth foorth by Grisdale, Satrethwate, Rusland,
Powbridge, Bowth, and so falleth with the Winander water into the maine
sea. On the west side of the Fosse also commeth another through Furnesse
felles, and from the hilles by north thereof, which yer long making the
Thurstan lake not far from Hollinhow, and going by Bridge end, in a
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