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| Sandwick Beck | ||||
| runs into:- |  Ullswater |
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| locality:- | Sandwick | |||
| civil parish:- | Martindale (formerly Westmorland) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | river | |||
| 1Km square:- | NY4219 | |||
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |||
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 BZZ45.jpg (taken 27.2.2014) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 12 4) placename:- Sandwick Beck |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 |
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| 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. BO18NY31.jpg wiggly line, into Ullswater item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 item:- fish, Sandwick Beck |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto source Page 28:- "... The rivulet here alluded to is Sandwich Beck, and the story is as follows:" "One Thomas Clarke of How-Town, in his youth, (when he was apprentice to a weaver,) got leave to go, in company with another young man, to Patterdale Fair: in their road they amused themselves with fishing; when observing that it was spawning-time, (as Patterdale Fair is held the first Monday after Old Michaelmas,) they took it into their heads to try if they could supply Sandwich Beck, above the Force or Fall, with fish, there being none there at that time. Accordingly they carried six fish, three males and as many females, in a pail of water to the place proposed, and put them in the spot they thought likeliest for their preservation." "Next year they visited the brook, when they saw some of the original stock, and many more of a smaller size, from three to four inches long. In about four years anglers resorted to the place, and caught numbers of fine fish, about half a pound weight. The brook has since been much frequented, and continues to this day well supplied: but it is remarkable, though many years have now elapsed since fish were caught there, none have ever been taken exceeding half a pound." |
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