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Esk Estuary
site name:-   Esk, River
civil parish:-   Rockcliffe (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   estuary
locality type:-   river estuary
1Km square:-   NY3165 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY36
country:-   Scotland
current boundary
locality:-   Cumbria boundary
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.
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item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Burghley 1590 (facsimile) 
source data:-   Facsimile map, A Platt of the Opposete Border of Scotland to ye West Marches of England, parts of Cumberland and Scotland including the Debateable Land, from a manuscript drawn for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, about 1590, published by R B Armstrong, 1897.
courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
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river mouth 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : MS6113 f.267
Image © National Library of Scotland
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.
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double line with stream lines, into the sea 
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river mouth, into the sea 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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