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Horsehead Grain
runs into:-    Gair Burn

locality:-   Horse Head
civil parish:-   Bewcastle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   county boundary
1Km square:-   NY6180 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY68
county:-   Northumberland

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 4 8) 
placename:-  Horsehead Grain
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:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP11NY68.jpg
wiggly line, runs into the Trout Beck/Gair Burn; county boundary 
item:-  private collection : 16
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