Levens

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Levens
Westmorland
St John's Church, Levens, Lych gate - geograph.org.uk - 1723308.jpg
Lych gate at St John's Church
Location
Grid reference: SD487861
Location: 54°16’5"N, 2°47’20"W
Data
Population: 1,049  (2011)
Post town: Kendal
Postcode: LA8
Dialling code: 01539
Local Government
Council: Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary
constituency:
Westmorland and Lonsdale

Levens is a village in southern Westmorland, to be found at the foot of the Lyth Valley, four miles south of Kendal off the A6 and A590 roads. It is at the edge of the drained marshes at the head of the Kent Estuary, where Westmorland reaches the tidal waters, if not the open sea.

This is a modest place with a population of just 1,049 according to the 2011 Census, remaining a little village little affected by the industrial development of the Lancashire coastlines either side of this wedge of Westmorland, though with the A590 dual carriageway slicing across at the village's foot.

Levens Hall is within the parish, just across the River Kent, which river becomes tidal just a mile south of Levens. The southern end of the village is a hamlet known as Causeway End.

The parsh church is St John The Evangelist, at Causeway End.

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