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placename:- Skill Beck
parish Bassenthwaite parish, once in Cumberland
parish Underskiddaw parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
river
coordinates:- NY22442878
10Km square:- NY22

1Km square NY2228

photograph

Skill Beck -- Bassenthwaite and Underskiddaw -- Cumbria / -- Beside St Bega's down to Bassenthwaite Lake (I think this is the Skill Beck). -- 20.1.2006

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite Lake) -- probably relevant

This seems to be the Skill Beck drawn wrong.
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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Hensom Gill Beck

placename:- Hensom Gill Beck
river
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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