Levens Local History Group
The Levens Local History Group (LLHG) 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 the latest information about LLHG news, publications, meeting programme, and events, as well as some of the archive material collected and transcribed by the group, and gives links to further sources. 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 2022Our 2022 programme was arranged in the expectation that Covid would be history and we would be having meetings in-person. Omicron has sprung up and will affect some of the early 2022 meetings - Check here for the current situation.
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ContactDue to the difficulties caused by Covid 19, Levens Local History Group meetings for the first half of 2021 will be via Zoom.
The Annual membership for 2022 will be decided at our AGM on 20 January and will then become due For
please contact Allan Steward, the secretary of Levens Local History Group. |
Heritage Lottery Funding 2018
Levens Local History Group 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 focused 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.
