Leck Beck is a watercourse in
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
with its source on Crag Hill in
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...
between
Leck Fell Leck may refer to:
Places
* Conwal and Leck, Ireland
* Leck, Lancashire, England
* Leck, Nordfriesland, Germany
* Leck, Virginia, U.S.
Persons
* Leck (rapper), French rapper of Moroccan origin
* Bart van der Leck
Bart van der Leck (26 Novembe ...
and
Casterton Fell.
For several kilometres near the start of its course, the water flows into the
Ease Gill Cave System, part of
The Three Counties System, the longest cave system in Britain (and 26th longest in the world) via 14 major sink holes, to resurge at a major spring at Leck Beck Head.
The rising of Leck Beck Head was dived extensively in the 1980s and required underwater digging and the use of an air chisel to make progress.
The overflow for this rising,
Witches Cave (Yorkshire), has been dived through a 300m sump into Witches II. A dry entrance was dug into Witches II from the surface in 2010.
The Beck flows through
Leck,
Cowan Bridge
Cowan Bridge is a village in the English county of Lancashire.
It is south-east of the town of Kirkby Lonsdale where the main A65 road crosses the Leck Beck. It forms part of the civil parish of Burrow-with-Burrow.
Clergy Daughters' School
...
and
Overtown before joining the
River Lune
The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England.
Etymology
Several elucidations for the origin of the name ''Lune'' exist. Firstly, it may be that the name is Brittonic in genesis and deriv ...
near
Nether Burrow
Nether Burrow is a small hamlet in the Lunesdale Valley of North Lancashire, England. It is a small settlement on the banks of the River Lune. There is not much there but there is a pub called the Highwayman Inn. It is on the A683 road between ...
.
References
Rivers of Lancashire
Rivers of Cumbria
Rivers of Lancaster
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