button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
High Cupgill Beck
runs into:-    Keisley Beck

locality:-   High Cup
civil parish:-   Murton (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Dufton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   parish boundary
1Km square:-   NY7325 (etc etc) 
10Km square:-   NY72


photograph
BQR96.jpg  The beck at the head of the valley.
(taken 1.6.2009)  
photograph
BVB83.jpg (taken 24.7.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 9 8) 
placename:-  High Cupgill Beck
placename:-  Cupgill Beck, High
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
Sax9NY72.jpg
River N of Murton Pike. 
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

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
SP14NY72.jpg
double line, running into the Trout Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
image
JAN3NY72.jpg
Single wiggly line. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
image  click to enlarge
SEL7.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
image
MD10NY72.jpg
Running down the gap. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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
BO18NY62.jpg
wiggly line, into the Trout Beck 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35
placename:-  Highcup Gill
source data:-   Print, engraving, Highcup-Gill, Appleby in the Distance, by Thomas Allom, engraved by S Lacey, 1833.
image  click to enlarge
R219.jpg
"Highcup-Gill, Appleby in the Distance"
item:-  JandMN : 96.10
Image © see bottom of page

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.