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Beckstones, Patterdale
Beckstones
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY40351497
1Km square:-   NY4014
10Km square:-   NY41


photograph
CAB95.jpg (taken 10.3.2014)  
photograph
CAB98.jpg (taken 10.3.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 12 15) 
placename:-  Beckstones
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.


photograph
CAB96.jpg  Sheepfold.
(taken 10.3.2014)  
photograph
CAB97.jpg  Sheepfold.
(taken 10.3.2014)  

notes:-  
There is a cup and ring marked stone, on private land but visible from a footpath; about NY401150.

Becckensall, Stan: 2002: Prehistoric Rock Art in Cumbria: Tempus Publishing (Stroud, Gloucestershire)

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