Leath 3909079 215872440 2008-05-30T01:51:14Z BiT 488890 :''Not to be confused with [[Lethe]].'' '''Leath''' was one of the [[ward (politics)|wards]] of the [[Historic counties of England|ancient county]] of [[Cumberland]] in north west [[England]]. Cumberland unlike most other English counties was divided into wards rather than [[hundred (division)|hundreds]]. The ward was bounded on the south by [[Westmorland]], the north by [[Cumberland (ward)|Cumberland]] and [[Eskdale (ward)|Eskdale]] wards, the east by the counties of [[Northumberland]] and [[County Durham|Durham]] and on the west by the wards of [[Allerdale above Derwent]] and [[Allerdale below Derwent]]. The ward largely corresponds to that part of the modern [[Eden, Cumbria|Eden District]] that lies within Cumberland that is the former [[Penrith, Cumbria|Penrith]] [[Urban District|urban]] and [[Penrith Rural District|rural]] districts and the [[Alston with Garrigill Rural District]]. [[Market town]]s in the ward were Penrith (the largest settlement and seat of local government), [[Kirkoswald, Cumbria|Kirkoswald]] and [[Alston]]. At one time the village of [[Greystoke, Cumbria|Greystoke]] had held markets. A large part of the ward once made up the main part of the [[Royal Forest|Royal hunting ground]] known as [[Inglewood Forest]] which was subject to Forest Laws up until the reign of [[Henry VIII]]. The [[manorialism|manors]] of Penrith, [[Langwathby]], [[Castle Sowerby]] and [[Great Salkeld]] were part of the royal estate known as the [[Honour]] of Penrith which eventually passed into the hands of the [[Duke of Devonshire|Dukes of Devonshire]]. {{Cumbria-geo-stub}} [[Category:Hundreds of England]]