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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?


Heritage Lottery Funding 2018

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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.

Contact

Levens 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.

For 
  • access to archives
  • advice on research
  • information about local meetings
or if you have any additional information

please contact Stephen Read, the secretary of Levens Local History Group.

Publications available from the group

Books and leaflets:
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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'
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.

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