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Bowderdale Beck
runs into:-    Lune, River

site name:-   Howgill Fells
civil parish:-   Orton S (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Ravenstonedale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY6701
10Km square:-   NY60
10Km square:-   SD69


photograph
BNX50.jpg  At Bowderdale Bridge.
(taken 8.8.2007)  
photograph
BNX49.jpg  At Bowderdale Bridge.
(taken 8.8.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 29 10) 
placename:-  Bowderdale 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.
OS County Series (Wmd 29 15) 
OS County Series (Wmd 35 3) 

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.
image
J5NY60NE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

places:-  
NY67810464 Bowderdale Bridge (Ravenstonedale / Orton S)
SD68179796 Bowderdale Head locality 
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