Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Langstrath Beck

Langstrath Beck

runs into:-

Stonethwaite Beck

locality:-

Langstrath

civil parish:-

Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY2611 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY21

CDB27.jpg (taken 13.5.2015)
photograph

BRW66.jpg Waterfall.
(taken 11.11.2009)
photograph

BRW67.jpg Waterfall.
(taken 11.11.2009)

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)

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.

D4NY21SE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s

source data:-

Photograph, black and white, Langstrath Beck, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.

click to enlarge
HB0867.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : ALPS538
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s

source data:-

Photograph, black and white, Langstrath Beck, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.

click to enlarge
HB0386.jpg
internegative at lower right:- "H. Bell"
item:- Armitt Library : ALPS41
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913)
placename:- Longstrath Beck

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.

PST2NY21.jpg
"Longstrath Beck"
wiggly line, running into Derwent
item:- JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page

CDB43.jpg (taken 13.5.2015)
photograph

BOG11.jpg Waterfall.
(taken 5.10.2007)
photograph

BOG10.jpg (taken 5.10.2007)
photograph

BOG13.jpg (taken 5.10.2007)

places:-

NY26400998 footbridge, Borrowdale (3) (Borrowdale)

NY27181265 Langstrath Bridge (Borrowdale)

NY27371300 Smithymire Island (Borrowdale)

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