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Dub Beck (2)
runs into:-    Park Beck (2)

Dub Beck
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY1321 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY12


photograph
BQD34.jpg  At Maggie's Bridge.
(taken 17.2.2009)  
photograph
BQD51.jpg  At Maggie's Bridge.
(taken 17.2.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 63 9) 
placename:-  Dub 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:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
image
Sax9NY12.jpg
From Loweswater. 
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   possibly 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
BO18NY11.jpg
wiggly line, into and out from Loweswater lake 
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
D4NY12SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river from Loweswater 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1794, version published 1800.
image
CT8NY12B.jpg
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CT8NY12F.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.2
Image © see bottom of page

places:-  
NY13432099 bridge, Loweswater (Loweswater)
NY13482094 Maggie's Bridge (Loweswater)
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