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Gillcambon Beck
runs into:-    Caldew, River

civil parish:-   Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Castle Sowerby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   parish boundary
1Km square:-   NY3736 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY33


photograph
BUC37.jpg  At Newsham Bridge,
If you look carefully you can see a series of meanders within the narrow valley.
(taken 25.2.2011)  
photograph
BLR19.jpg  ... and a little waterfall hid in the trees upstream.
(taken 9.3.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 48 2) 
placename:-  Gillcambon 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 48 7) 

evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
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.
image
Sax9NY43.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
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.
image
SP11NY33.jpg
wiggly line ruins into the Caldew 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
image
JAN3NY33.jpg
Single wiggly line. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
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.
image
MD12NY33.jpg
Running into the Caldew near Caldbeck. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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.
image
BO18NY33.jpg
wiggly line, into the Caldew 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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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
Ws02NY33.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
image  click to enlarge
COP3.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  JandMN : 86
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places:-  
NY37423700 bridge, Castle Sowerby (Castle Sowerby / Mungrisdale)
NY38743495 Newsham Bridge (Greystoke / Mungrisdale)
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