button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Barrow Beck (2)
runs into:-    Derwent Water

Barrow Beck
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY2719 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY21


photograph
BLT89.jpg  Above Ashness Bridge.
(taken 3.4.2006)  
photograph
BUI44.jpg (taken 7.4.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 14) 
placename:-  Barrow Beck
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P203, button  goto source
Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 203:-  "Oct. 3. [from Keswick] to Borrowdale; ... to Barrowgate, and a little further, passing a brook called Barrow-beck, we entered Borrowdale: ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, ie Derwent Water, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
image
CT2NY21U.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der) 
placename:-  Barrow Beck
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of Derwentwater and its Environs, scale about 13 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
image
CL152620.jpg
"Barrow Beck"
stream into Derwent Water, and large isthmus 
item:-  private collection : 169
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35 (vol.3 no.29) 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Derwent and Bassenthwaite Lakes, Keswick and Skiddaw in the Distance, Cumberland, drawn by G Pickering, engraved by A le Petit, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1835.
image  click to enlarge
PR0041.jpg
vol.3 pl.29 in the set of prints, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  ". Pickering. / A. Le Petit. / DERWENT & BASSENTHWAITE LAKES,- KESWICK & SKIDDAW IN THE DISTANCE. / FISHER, SON &CO. LONDON, 1835."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.41
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BUI45.jpg (taken 7.4.2011)  

places:-  
NY27021968 Ashness Bridge (Borrowdale) L
NY26921995 Barrow Cascade (Borrowdale)
NY26772001 bridge, Borrowdale (Borrowdale)
NY268200 Derwentwater YHA Water Turbine (Borrowdale)
NY27781930 waterfall, Barrow Beck (Borrowdale / St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.