Levens Local History Group
The Levens Local History Group was set up in 2006 to research and investigate the heritage of the village and parish and its occupants. The Local Heritage Initiative started the research process by providing equipment and Heritage Lottery Fund funding for the first three years of research, 2006-2008. The longer-term aim of the group is to produce a total history of the development and growth of the village up to 2005.
The group website www.levenshistory.co.uk contains some of the archive material collected and transcribed, gives links to further sources and advertises Levens Local History Group meetings and events. The Levens Local History Group welcomes additional information on any aspect of local history for our area. If you have any information, documents, pictures or photographs, please contact us. Meetings 2019
January 17 AGM Stephen Read – Force Mill, Levens
February 21 Rob David - Waiter, Miner, Butcher, Spy: Germans and Austrians in Cumbria during the First World War March 21 Kevin Grice – Warton Crag: An Iron Age Hill Fort - or is it? April 18 Ian Brodie – The Rock of Names - A Lakeland Mystery May 23 Colin Penny - Lancaster Castle June 20 Visit to Helsington Laithes, a manor house dating from 15C September 19 Jeremy Rowan-Robinson - Long Houses, bloomeries and the Manor of Witherslack October 17 Ian Hodkinson – Francis Strickland and the Jacobite Rebellions November 21 Fiona Edmonds - Morecambe Bay in the early medieval period: a frontier zone? |
ContactLevens Local History Group meets at Levens Village Institute at 7.30pm on the third Thursday of each month except for July, August and December. Annual membership is presently £10 and non-members can attend our meetings for £2 payable on the night.
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please contact Stephen Read, the secretary of Levens Local History Group. |
Heritage Lottery Funding 2018
Levens Local History Group has received a National Lottery grant of £5100 for its project ‘Levens in WWI’. Awarded through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s First World War Then and Now programme, the project focuses not merely on the servicemen whose lives are commemorated on the war memorial at St. John the Evangelist Church in Levens, but also on those who survived the conflict and returned to the area, as well as the role of the women, children and men who stayed at home and aided the war effort.
Publications available from the group
Books and leaflets:
The Three-Legged Society
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Luck to Levens
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The Ague: A History of Indegenous Malaria in Cumbria and the North
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Sizergh Castle: 'Dig in the Park'
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Papers:
Hodkinson, I.D. 2015. Kirks-head, Kirkstead and the Temple of Diana: the naming of archaeological sites in Levens Park. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, New Series. 15, 246-249.
Read, S. (2016). Burials at Hyning, Levens. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.16, 241-247.
Hodkinson, I.D. 2015. Kirks-head, Kirkstead and the Temple of Diana: the naming of archaeological sites in Levens Park. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, New Series. 15, 246-249.
Read, S. (2016). Burials at Hyning, Levens. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.16, 241-247.
