The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. rT-\HE NAME OF BIRKBECK has from an early date been of very-*- frequent occurrence in the records of Cumberland, Westmorland,and Yorkshire. The Birkbeck lordship, from which the family name wasderived, is chiefly in the parish of Orton, although a portion is within theparishes of Shap and Crosby Ravensworth in the county of is now known as Birkbeck Fells, an extensive and wild mountainousdistrict watered by the Birkbeck—a stream which, rising in the upper partof the Fell near Wasdale Pike, falls i
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. rT-\HE NAME OF BIRKBECK has from an early date been of very-*- frequent occurrence in the records of Cumberland, Westmorland,and Yorkshire. The Birkbeck lordship, from which the family name wasderived, is chiefly in the parish of Orton, although a portion is within theparishes of Shap and Crosby Ravensworth in the county of is now known as Birkbeck Fells, an extensive and wild mountainousdistrict watered by the Birkbeck—a stream which, rising in the upper partof the Fell near Wasdale Pike, falls into the river Lune close to TebayStation, on the main line of the London and North-Western Railway. Both lordship and river are several times mentioned in the thirteenthand fourteenth centuries. The course of the latter was described under thename Bibeck River in a Boundary Roll of the Orton and Raisbeck Manorsat the time of the division of the Manors {Iide p. 39), witnessed bySir Michael de Harclay, who lived in the reigns of Henry IIL andEdward
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