The River Lyvennet is a river

River

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 flowing through the county

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 of Cumbria

Cumbria

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 in England

England

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The source of the Lyvennet (as Lyvennet Beck) is to be found close to Robin Hood's Grave

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 on Crosby Ravensworth

Crosby Ravensworth

Crosby Ravensworth is a village, civil parish and fell in the Eden District of Cumbria, England. The village is about east of the M6 motorway, and Shap.-Notable People:*John Langhorne, mathematical master at Giggleswick School...

 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

River Leith

The River Leith is a watercourse in Cumbria, a county of northwestern England.Rising at Shap, the Leith flows north alongside the M6 motorway via Great and Little Strickland before turning eastward at Melkinthorpe. Having passed through Cliburn, the Leith flows into the River Lyvennet at Cliburn...

 shortly before the Lyvennet's own confluence with the River Eden

River Eden, Cumbria

The River Eden is a river that flows through Cumbria, England on its way to the Solway Firth.-Course of river:The Eden rises in Black Fell Moss, Mallerstang, on the high ground between High Seat, Yorkshire Dales and Hugh Seat. Here it forms the boundary between the counties of Cumbria and North...

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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

Taliesin was an early British poet of the post-Roman period whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin...

's "Llwyfenydd" and would thus be associated with the post-Roman

Sub-Roman Britain

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 Brythonic kingdom of Rheged

Rheged

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. The meaning of the Welsh word "llwyfen" is the elm tree.