Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Whit Beck

runs into:-

Cocker, River

civil parish:-

Lorton (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY1625 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY12

BNK87.jpg At High Whitbeck Bridge.
(taken 24.3.2007)
photograph

BVP08.jpg At Boonbeck Bridge,
(taken 1.11.2011)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 14)
placename:- Whit 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:- 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.

D4NY12NE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river thro Scales
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-

NY16152551 Boonbeck Bridge (Lorton) L

NY15952517 High Mill (Lorton)

NY15772496 High Whitbeck Bridge (Lorton)

NY16482562 mill, Lorton (Lorton) gone?

NY15612490 Whitbeck Bridge (Lorton)

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