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Alum Pot Beck
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   SD7775
10Km square:-   SD77
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
placename:-  Alum Pot Beck
source data:-   Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about 1890.
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page 54:-  "Alum Pot."
"... Alum Pot Hole, into which a stream, called Alum Pot Beck, precipitates itself, in time of flood, as a magnificent fall without break for a great distance, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Alum Pot Beck
source data:-   Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West Yorkshire, about 1890.
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"ALUM POT BECK"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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