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Brockle Beck
runs into:-    Derwent Water

civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   parish boundary
1Km square:-   NY2822 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY22


photograph
BMX43.jpg  Above the ford at Rakefoot.
(taken 23.10.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 7) 
placename:-  Brockle 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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY22SE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NY28352210 ford, Rakefoot (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
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