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Burrow Beck
civil parish:-   Cartmel Fell (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
coordinates:-   SD38389098
1Km square:-   SD3890
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Burrow, River
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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"... the Lone or Lune, ... After receiving some Rivulets, and the two Rivers Birkbeck and Burrow, near Orton. it grows a large Stream, ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere S) 
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Southern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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item:-  private collection : 10.11
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places:-  
SD38689102 Burrow Bridge (Cartmel Fell)
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