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Pow Beck (5)
runs into:-    Irish Sea (at Whitehaven Harbour)

Pow Beck
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NX9716 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NX91


photograph
CGN91.jpg  The End, at Customhouse Dock, Whitehaven.
(taken 15.9.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 6) 
placename:-  Pow 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.
OS County Series (Cmd 67 2) 

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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
D4NX91NE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river into the sea at Whitehaven Harbour 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Pow Beck
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.
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"Pow Beck"
river into sea 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Images © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NX97381738 bridge, Whitehaven (Whitehaven)
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