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in Cartmel, and Marsh Grange on the river Duddon.
HOLM or HOLME, an island, or a plain by the water side.
KELL or KELD, a spring of water.
WATH, a ford across a river.
SYKE, in provincial dialect, is a stream of the smallest class:
as Heron-Syke near Burton - dividing the counties of Westmorland
and Lancashire.
GILL (sometimes wrote Ghyll to secure the hard sound of
the G) is a mountain stream confined between steep banks, and
running in a rapid descent. These gills are instrumental in
enriching the vallies by the spoil of the mountains; they
contribute to the formation of a plot of superior land on the
side of a valley; or sometimes a low promontory sweeping with a
bold curve into a lake.
BECK is a term used promiscuously for river, rivulet, or brook;
it signifies a stream in the bottom of a vale, and to which the
gills are tributary. These becks receive a name from some dale,
hamlet or remarkable place which they pass, and in their course
the appellation is frequently changed; for instance, a stream
running north from Bowfell, and receiving several augmentations
in its progress down Borrowdale is called Langstreth beck; then
Stonethwaite beck, Rosthwaite beck, and Grange beck till it
enters Derwent lake, thence it has the name of Derwent, to
Workington, where it falls into the sea.
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