Dacre Beck is a small river in Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

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England

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Dacre Beck rises on the north side of Gowbarrow Fell and flows north past Ulcat Row, picking up streams from Lowthwaite and Matterdale End, traversing a valley between Great Mell Fell and Little Mell Fell, before changing its course to eastward at Thackthwaite.

The beck collects more streams at Hutton, one of which comes south from Berrier past Beckces

Beckces

Beckces is a hamlet approximately 300 yards north of this point close to the crossroads on the A66 trunk road in Cumbria, England....

, near to Penruddock

Penruddock

Penruddock is a small village in Cumbria, England, a few miles to the west of Penrith. It forms part of the civil parish of Hutton.-History:The name Penruddock is Cumbric. With both red soil and red sandstone in the area to the south, the word Penruddock is likely derived from the word Pen and a...

. From here, Dacre Beck flows past the ancient settlement of Dacre

Dacre, Cumbria

Dacre is a small village and civil parish in the Lake District National Park in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, and was historically in Cumberland...

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The beck is a tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the River Eamont

River Eamont

The River Eamont is a river in Cumbria, England and one of the major tributaries of the River Eden.The river is formed by the outflow from Ullswater in the Lake District, later augmented by Dacre Beck from the west and the River Lowther which carries the water from Haweswater north to the Eamont at...

, which it joins at Dalemain near Stainton

Stainton

-Places in England:* Stainton, Carlisle, Cumbria* Stainton, Eden, near Penrith, Cumbria* Stainton, South Lakeland, near Sedgwick, Cumbria* Stainton, County Durham, near Barnard Castle* Stainton, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire...

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