Old Cumbria Gazetteer

How Beck

runs into:-

St John's Beck

civil parish:-

St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY3119 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY31

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 16)
placename:- How 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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96)

source data:-

Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.

OG96m020.jpg
In mile 24, Cumberland.
River crossed at:- "a Stone bridg and brook"
no bridge drawn.
item:- JandMN : 22
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.

BO18NY21.jpg
stream into St John's Beck; before the lake was enlarged.
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.

evidence:-

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick)

source data:-

Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside, scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.

places:-

NY31621930 bridge, Legburthwaite (Lakes)

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