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Chapel Beck
runs into:-    Newlands Beck

civil parish:-   Bassenthwaite (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY2331 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY23


photograph
CFF36.jpg  At Gibbeson Bridge,
(taken 8.7.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 47 13) 
placename:-  Chapel 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:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP14NY60.jpg
double line, into the Lune 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
image
SMP2NYK.jpg
Wiggly line. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
Image © see bottom of page

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.
image
BO18NY50.jpg
wiggly line, into the Lune 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

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
D4NY23SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NY22743151 Gibbeson Bridge (Bassenthwaite)
NY23843197 High Mill (Bassenthwaite) gone
SD63239497 mill, Howgill (Sedbergh)
NY22803161 Chapel Bridge (Bassenthwaite)
NY239319 High Mill Trial (Bassenthwaite)
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