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placename:- Burrow Beck
parish Cartmel Fell parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
river
coordinates:- SD38389098
10Km square:- SD39

1Km square SD3890

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere S)

Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
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river
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

descriptive text:- Simpson 1746

The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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Page 1020:-
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... the Lone or Lune, ... After receiving some Rivulets, and the two Rivers Birkbeck and Burrow, near Orton. it grows a large Stream, ...

placename:- Burrow, River
date:- 1746
period:- 18th century, early; 1740s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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