Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Castle Beck

runs into:-

Irthing, River

civil parish:-

Nether Denton (formerly Cumberland)

civil parish:-

Brampton (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

locality type:-

boundary

locality type:-

parish boundary

1Km square:-

NY5662 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY56

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 2)
placename:- Castle 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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86)

source data:-

Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from Tinmouth ... to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.

OG86m055.jpg
In mile 57, Cumberland. "a Rill"
crossing under the road.
item:- JandMN : 73
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

perhaps 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.

places:-

NY55896299 Carl Ford (Nether Denton / Brampton)

NY57216225 Denton Mill (Nether Denton) L

NY57206196 Scarrowhill Bridge (Brampton / Nether Denton)

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