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Chalk Beck
runs into:-    Wampool, River

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


photograph
BOH98.jpg  At Chalkside Bridge.
(taken 30.10.2007)  
photograph
BZO66.jpg  At Chalkfoot Bridge.
(taken 1.11.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 30 5) 
placename:-  Chalk 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 30 9) 
OS County Series (Cmd 37 4) 

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
Sax9NY34.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

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
SP11NY35.jpg
wiggly line, runs into the Wampool 
item:-  private collection : 16
Image © see bottom of page

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
MD12NY34.jpg
Running into the Wampool. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
Image © see bottom of page

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
BO18NY34.jpg
wiggly line, into the Wampool 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Chalk Beck
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.
image
D4NY34NW.jpg
"Chalk Beck"
single or double wiggly line; a river into the Wampool 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Shalk Beck
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.
image CAM2P193, button  goto source
Page 193:-  "..."
"About a mile or more from Rose castle westward is Shalk beck, ..."

places:-  
NY33014428 Chalkbeck Bridge (Sebergham / Westward)
NY33834855 Chalkfoot Bridge (Dalston / Westward)
NY32654497 Chalkside Bridge (Sebergham / Westward)
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