# Birk Beck

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**Birk Beck** is a minor [river](/source/River) in [Cumbria](/source/Cumbria).[1]

Rising on the [fells](/source/Fell) near [Shap](/source/Shap), the [beck](/source/Beck_(stream)) 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](/source/River_Lune) near the head of the *Lune Gorge* by [Castle Howe](/source/Castle_Howe) close to [Old Tebay](/source/Tebay).[2]

## References

1. *Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 91*Appleby-in-Westmorland (Brough & Kirkby Stephen)'**. Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231302.**

1. ["Birk Beck Water Body"](https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/WaterBody/GB112072071810). *[Environment Agency](/source/Environment_Agency)*. Catchment Data Explorer. Retrieved 19 November 2025.

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