Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCANDALE BECK

SCANDALE BECK, a streamlet in the W of Westmoreland; rising between Rydal Head and the Red Screes; running 4 miles south-south-westward to the Rothay, in the W vicinity of Ambleside; traversing aravine down the long southern offshoot of Fairfield; and making some pretty cascades.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a streamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Westmorland AncC
Place: Scandale

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