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Dash Beck
runs into:-    Halls Beck

civil parish:-   Bassenthwaite (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Ireby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   parish boundary
1Km square:-   NY2731 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY23


photograph
BVE80.jpg  At a footbridge
(taken 8.8.2011)  
photograph
BVE37.jpg  At Bassenthwaite,
(taken 9.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 47 14) 
placename:-  Dash 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.

evidence:-   old map:- Gents Mag 1751
placename:-  White Water Dash
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Black Lead Mines in Cumberland, and area, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by George Smith, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751.
image
GM1313.jpg
"White Water Dash"
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  JandMN : 114
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
image
Ws02NY23.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2NY13.jpg
wiggly line, river 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

places:-  
NY27323125 footbridge, Underskiddaw (2) (Underskiddaw)
NY27213134 Whitewater Dash (Bassenthwaite / Ireby)
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