Llyn-Yr-Avave or the Beaver Lake

According to Oliver’s Beverley and The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893),‘The origin of Bever-lee, the town of Beverley, which was in the ancient wood Deira, is referred to in the old religious ceremony of drawing the shrine, or emblematical Beaver, out of the lake in the wood, and placing it in security on an eminence in the sight of the assembled multitude. This rite was performed near the course—Hwyl—of the stream, which was hence called “Hull,” in honour of Ked (Ceres), whence the name of a street in Beverley, called Ked or Keldgate. This female divinity was also denominated Hhi-wen—old lady—whence, perhaps, Hen-gate and Lady Gate ; and was the daughter of Llyr, whence Lair-gate. The Ark or Beaver was also named Aren or Erfi, whence Hurn Moor, the eminence on which it was placed after being drawn out of the lake was, in common with the Ark itself, considered as a mystical Bedd or Pastes.’