Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Deepdale Beck

Deepdale Beck

runs into:-

Goldrill Beck

civil parish:-

Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY3813 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY31

BXI60.jpg (taken 18.9.2012)
photograph

BOE60.jpg (taken 11.9.2007)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 3)
placename:- Deepdale 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:- 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.

J5NY41SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805)

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.

evidence:-

old text:- Wordsworth 1810

source data:-

Guide book, A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes, later A Guide through the District of The Lakes, by William Wordsworth, 1810-35.

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page xxi "... the next considerable steam would, if ascending in the same manner, conduct to Deep-dale, the character of which Valley may be conjectured from its name. It is terminated by a cove, a craggy and gloomy abyss, with precipitous sides; a faithful receptacle of the snows that are driven into it, by the west wind, from the summit of Fairfield. ..."

places:-

NY39911441 Deepdale Bridge (Patterdale)

NY37251219 Forces, The (Patterdale)

NY368125 waterfall, Deepdale Beck (Patterdale)

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