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Swindale Beck (3)
runs into:-    Eden, River

Swindale Beck
civil parish:-   Musgrave (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Brough (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Helbeck (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Stainmore (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY8016 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY81


photograph
CAH71.jpg  N side of Brough,
(taken 11.4.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 16 8) 
placename:-  Swindale 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.
OS County Series (Wmd 16 12) 
OS County Series (Wmd 16 15) 
OS County Series (Wmd 23 3) 

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
Sax9NY71.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
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
MD10NY71.jpg
Through Brough, running into the Eden. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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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
BO18NY71.jpg
wiggly line, into the Belah 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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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.
image
J5NY71SE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY71.jpg
river running into the Eden 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   perhaps old print:- 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Brough Castle, Westmorland, drawn by W Westall, engraved by E Finden, about 1830s?
image  click to enlarge
PR0152.jpg
This engraving is used as a vignette on Bell's map of the county, 1833. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Drawn by W. Westall, A.R.A. / E. Finden sculp. / BROUGH CASTLE, / WESTMORELAND."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.152
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places:-  
NY793142 bridge, Brough (2) (Brough)
NY79671470 bridge, Brough (3) (Brough) L
NY79551459 bridge, Brough (4) (Brough)
NY80071490 Brough High Mill (Brough)
NY79481450 Brough Mill (Brough)
NY80621653 Midge Hole (Helbeck / Stainmore)
NY81871856 Swindale Head (Helbeck / Stainmore)
NY79491452 weir, Brough (Brough)
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