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Scales Beck
runs into:-    Glenderamackin, River

civil parish:-   Threlkeld (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY3328
10Km square:-   NY32


photograph
BPD07.jpg  coming out of Scales Tarn.
(taken 2.5.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 57 9) 
placename:-  Scales 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:-   perhaps old map:- Gents Mag 1747
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
image
GM1402.jpg
tapering wiggly line 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 43
Image © Carlisle Library

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