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The River Rawthey and Sedbergh
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Short Journal: According to early maps, the River Rawthey did not ‘part two counties’; in Saxton it is in Yorkshire, and the county boundary runs down the Lune. (Today, of course, the area is in Cumbria.) But there seems to be a local tradition that it was a county boundary between Yorkshire and Westmorland. 1
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1. See Freda Trott Sedbergh (Sedbergh: Douglas, 1991) page 22.