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Black Beck (4)
runs into:-    Esthwaite Water

Black Beck
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Claife (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   parish boundary
locality type:-   boundary
1Km square:-   SD3597
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) 
placename:-  Black 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:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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wiggly line, from Hawkshead into the Leven 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, cattle, from Hawkshead Bridge, presumably Pool Bridge on Black Beck, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 13 July 1849.
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"July 13 1849, / from Hawshead Bridge."
"James & Sara"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.2
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
source data:-   Print, etching? The Brook Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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Tipped in opposite p.34 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
printed at lower centre:-  "The Brook Hawkshead"
item:-  JandMN : 382.9
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places:-  
SD35049861 Gallowbarrow Bridge (Hawkshead)
SD34989874 Hall Bridge (Hawkshead)
SD35509806 Pool Bridge bridge 
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