Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Yewdale Beck
	parish	Coniston parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		river
	coordinates:-	SD31039707
	10Km square:-	SD39
	1Km square	SD3197
		Yewdale Beck -- Coniston -- Cumbria / -- High up by the quarry. -- 3.9.2007
		Yewdale Beck -- Coniston -- Cumbria / -- Upstream from Shepherd's Bridge. -- 13.4.2006
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		Yew-dale Beck
	placename:-	Yewdale Beck
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821) -- possibly relevant
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
		goto source.
		Page 54:-
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		The feeder of this lake [Coniston Water], besides the Black-beck of Torver, is Coniston-beck. It decends (sic) from the mountains, or rather is precipitated, in a short course to the lake, which it enters on the western canton in a clear stream, concealed by its banks.
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	hearsay	Referred to as the River Amazon by Arthur Ransome.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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