Birk Beck

Wasdale Beck at Wasdale Old Bridge, south of Shap, with Shap Pink Quarry in the background source ↗

Birk Beck is a minor river in Cumbria.¹

Rising on the fells near Shap, the beck runs south-by-south east, picking up Wasdale Beck (running east and draining Yarlside and Gargill) and Bretherdale Beck (flowing east from Demmings Moss and Bretherdale Bank) before falling into the River Lune near the head of the Lune Gorge by Castle Howe close to Old Tebay.²

References

Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 91 Appleby-in-Westmorland (Brough & Kirkby Stephen) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231302.
"Birk Beck Water Body". Environment Agency. Catchment Data Explorer. Retrieved 19 November 2025.

54°26′25″N 2°35′58″W / 54.44028°N 2.59944°W / 54.44028; -2.59944

[OS91-1] Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 91 Appleby-in-Westmorland (Brough & Kirkby Stephen) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231302.

[2] "Birk Beck Water Body". Environment Agency. Catchment Data Explorer. Retrieved 19 November 2025.

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