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Argill Beck
runs into:-    Belah, River

civil parish:-   Stainmore (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Brough Sowerby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   parish boundary
1Km square:-   NY8313 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY81


photograph
BSQ46.jpg  At Argill Bridge,
(taken 30.4.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 24 1) 
placename:-  Argill 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 (Wmd 24 2) 

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY81SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY81.jpg
river running into the Belah 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

places:-  
NY82531289 Argill Bridge (Stainmore / Brough Sowerby)
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