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Scale Beck
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY1416
10Km square:-   NY11


photograph
BPA50.jpg  Above Scale Force.
(taken 16.4.2008)  
photograph
BVG96.jpg  Below footbridge below the force,
(taken 17.8.2011)  

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
CT8NY11N.jpg
Showing two arms descending to the lake. 
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.2
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BVG99.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  
photograph
BLY24.jpg (taken 24.4.2006)  
photograph
BJY21.jpg  Valley from across Crummock Water.
(taken 14.10.2005)  

places:-  
NY15051715 footbridge, Loweswater (Loweswater)
NY150170 Scale Force (Loweswater)
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