Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, CompleteHolinshed, Raphael
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Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
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
[Sidenote: Sprota.]
the east 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
[Sidenote: Ken.]
last called 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. The other péece of the forked arme, is called
[Sidenote: Winstar.]
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 choked vp
[Sidenote: Winander.]
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.
[Sidenote: Fosse.]
There is in 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 narrow channell, passeth
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