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Weasdale
Weasdale is a small hamlet in Cumbria, England, 850 feet (260 m) above sea-level on the northern flanks of the Howgill Fells. It is located approximately 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Kirkby Stephen. Weasdale Beck rises to the south of, and passes through, the settlement and is the major feeder to the nascent River Lune, which it meets near its crossing of the nearby A685 Kendal to Brough road. The properties there date from late 16th to mid-19th Century. The hamlet contains a tree-and-shrub nursery.
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Weasdale Beck
Weasdale Beck is a stream in Cumbria, England. It is in the Lune - headwaters to confluence Birk Beck catchment.
The Beck rises in Ravenstonedale and drains Leathgill Bridge on Randygill Top and Great Swindale, below Green Bell, flowing northwards to Wath, where, at its confluence with Sandwath Beck, Weasdale Beck forms the River Lune.
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Bowderdale
Bowderdale is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Kirkby Stephen. It is also the name of a dale in the Howgill Fells, the valley of Bowderdale Beck which rises on the western slopes of Yarlside and flows 5 miles (8 km) north to join the River Lune below the village of Bowderdale. For most of its length the beck forms the boundary between the parishes of Ravenstonedale and Orton.
The name, first recorded in 1224 as Butheresdal, is from the Old Norse búthar 'of the booths or shelters' and á 'river', so means "valley of the river of booths or shelters".
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Sandwath Beck
Sandwath Beck is a river running through Cumbria in England.
The beck rises beneath Green Bell in Ravenstonedale as Dale Gill, changing its designation to Greenside Beck when it passes the village of Greenside.
The stream turns west at Sandwath Beck, taking its name from the settlement, and picks up a number of rills as tributaries, before it reaches Wath, at which point it combines with Weasdale Beck to form the River Lune.
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