CHAPTER IV 

 ADJACENT RIVERS. I 



THE EDEN 

 By J. B. Slater 



THE Cumberland Eden rises in Swaledale, 

 Yorkshire, and in its course of seventy miles to the 

 sea is swelled by a number of tributaries, the chief 

 of which are the Lowther, Eamont, Irthing, Gelt, 

 Petterill and Caldew. It empties into the Solway 

 Firth below the village of Rockcliffe, four miles 

 from Carlisle, but at low tide forms an independent 

 stream till it meets the Dumfriesshire Esk at the 

 north end of Rockcliffe Marsh. It is tidal at the 

 time of spring tides as far up as the village of 

 Grinsdale, three miles below Carlisle. The whole 

 of the Eden, its estuary and tributaries, with two 

 or three slight exceptions, are under the control of 

 the Eden Fishery Board, whose headquarters are 

 at Carlisle. 



The Fishery District is one of the three large 

 ones in England (the others being the Tyne 

 and Severn), and one inspector with nine water 

 bailiffs are constantly employed by the Board of 

 Conservators, with occasional extra men during the 

 salmon spawning season. 



For beauty of scenery, from its source to its 

 outlet, the Eden can hardly be surpassed, and it is 



