Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Naddle Beck

runs into:-

Greta, River

civil parish:-

St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY2922 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY22

BYI70.jpg At Naddle Bridge.
(taken 21.5.2013)
photograph

BYI71.jpg At Naddle Bridge.
(taken 21.5.2013)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 7)
placename:- Naddle 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.

OG96m025.jpg
In mile 26, Cumberland.
River crossed at:- "a Stone bridg and brook"
no bridge drawn.
item:- JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

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.

J5NY51NW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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.

D4NY32SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river into the Greta
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:- Naddle Beck

source data:-

Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.

goto source
Page 62:- "... the river Greeta, which contains the waters of ... Naddle-Beck. ..."

BNE80.jpg At the railway bridge.
(taken 17.2.2007)

places:-

NY30032068 bridge, St John's Castlerigg etc (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY30002385 Naddle Bridge (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY30332454 railway bridge, St John's Castlerigg etc (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY30042064 Rough How Bridge (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

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