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placename:- Black Beck river
parish Hawkshead parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
parish Claife parish, once in Lancashire
river; parish boundary; boundary
coordinates:- SD3597
10Km square:- SD39

1Km square SD3597

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760

Esthwaite Water is not plotted
New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
thumbnail BO18SD28, button to large image
wiggly line, from Hawkshead into the Leven
date:- 1760
period:- 18th century, late; 1760s


Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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