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Bransty Beck
runs into:-    Pow Beck (5)

civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NX9718 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NX91

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 2) 
placename:-  Bransty 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.
traced by a series of dots inland 

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Bransty Gill
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
D49718M.jpg
"Bransty Gill"
river into the sea 
a pond is shown about NX97571854 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NX97441851 bridge, Whitehaven (2) (Whitehaven)
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