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Corby Beck
runs into:-    Stony Beck (2)

locality:-   Great Corby
civil parish:-   Wetheral (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   flood
1Km square:-   NY4854
10Km square:-   NY45


photograph
BVA02.jpg  Below the bridge,
(taken 22.7.2011)  
photograph
BVA08.jpg  Below the bridge,
(taken 22.7.2011)  
These two pictures show some of the flood damage caused by interference with the course of the stream a few days earlier. The nearby houses had several feet of water in their ground floor rooms.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 6) 
placename:-  Corby 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.

places:-  
NY47485462 bridge, Great Corby (Wetheral)
NY47445464 bridge, Great Corby (2) (Wetheral)
NY47285482 Glen Willie (Wetheral)
NY47275486 Glenwillie Bridge (Wetheral) L
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