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Whit Beck
runs into:-    Cocker, River

civil parish:-   Lorton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY1625 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY12


photograph
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.
image
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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