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Blencarn Beck
runs into:-    Briggle Beck

civil parish:-   Culgaith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY6231
10Km square:-   NY63


photograph
BWN67.jpg  At the bridge in Blencarn,
(taken 25.5.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 51 13) 
placename:-  Blencarn 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:-   probably old map:- Bickham 1753-54 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Blenkenbeck River
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective map, Map of Cumberland North from London, by George Bickham, James Street, Bunhill Fields, London, 1753, published by F Jollie and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1811.
image  click to enlarge
JL05.jpg
"Blenkenbeck R"
view (sort of) 
item:-  Carlisle Library : 4.2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NY63653142 bridge, Blencarn (Culgaith)
NY63823150 mill, Blencarn (Culgaith) gone
NY61543237 bridge, Skirwith (3) (Culgaith)
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