The River Rawthey near Brigflatts.

The Rawthey rises in East Baugh Fell, and initially skirts the Fell round the north before turning southwest to come down past Cautley, Sedbergh, Borret, and Brigflatts, finally joining the Lune about 1km east of Killington. Fed by a number of tributaries, in its later stages it is a wide river flowing past fields and copses.
      Fox identified this area as the place in his vision where he saw ‘a great people in white-raiment by a riuers syde Comeinge to ye Lorde: & ye place was neere Jo: Blayklinges where Rich: Robinson liued’. In this image the only white raiment is worn by sheep.

Image © Meg Twycross

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