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| Chalk Beck | ||||
| runs into:- |   Wampool, River | 
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| civil parish:- | Sebergham (formerly Cumberland) | |||
| civil parish:- | Westward (formerly Cumberland) | |||
| civil parish:- | Dalston (formerly Cumberland) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | river | |||
| locality type:- | parish boundary | |||
| locality type:- | boundary | |||
| 1Km square:- | NY3243 (etc) | |||
| 10Km square:- | NY34 | |||
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![]() BOH98.jpg At Chalkside Bridge. (taken 30.10.2007) ![]() BZO66.jpg At Chalkfoot Bridge. (taken 1.11.2013)  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 30 5)  placename:- Chalk Beck  | 
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| 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 30 9) OS County Series (Cmd 37 4)  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Saxton 1579 | 
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland
                  and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved
                  by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.![]() Sax9NY34.jpg item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)  | 
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| 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.![]() SP11NY35.jpg wiggly line, runs into the Wampool item:- private collection : 16 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)  | 
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 
                  inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the 
                  Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the 
                  Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.![]() MD12NY34.jpg Running into the Wampool. item:- JandMN : 90 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 | 
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of 
                  Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, 
                  scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas 
                  Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John 
                  Bowles, London, 1760.![]() BO18NY34.jpg wiggly line, into the Wampool item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)  placename:- Chalk Beck  | 
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| 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.![]() D4NY34NW.jpg "Chalk Beck" single or double wiggly line; a river into the Wampool item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library  | 
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)  placename:- Shalk Beck  | 
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
                  Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
                  by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.   goto sourcePage 193:- "..." "About a mile or more from Rose castle westward is Shalk beck, ..."  | 
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