Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Dash Beck

runs into:-

Halls Beck

civil parish:-

Bassenthwaite (formerly Cumberland)

civil parish:-

Ireby (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

locality type:-

boundary

locality type:-

parish boundary

1Km square:-

NY2731 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY23

BVE80.jpg At a footbridge
(taken 8.8.2011)
photograph

BVE37.jpg At Bassenthwaite,
(taken 9.8.2011)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 47 14)
placename:- Dash 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:- Gents Mag 1751
placename:- White Water Dash

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Black Lead Mines in Cumberland, and area, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by George Smith, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751.

GM1313.jpg
"White Water Dash"
tapering wiggly line; river
item:- JandMN : 114
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

places:-

NY27323125 footbridge, Underskiddaw (2) (Underskiddaw)

NY27213134 Whitewater Dash (Bassenthwaite / Ireby)

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