# Coledale Beck

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**Coledale Beck** is a minor [river](/source/River) running through [Cumbria](/source/Cumbria) in [England](/source/England).

## Course

The beck rises north east of [Eel Crag](/source/Eel_Crag), where **Pudding Beck** meets **Birkthwaite Beck**. From there, Coledale Beck runs east north east through Coledale, between [Grisedale Pike](/source/Grisedale_Pike) and [Causey Pike](/source/Causey_Pike). Emerging from the valley, the beck runs through the [village](/source/Village) of [Braithwaite](/source/Braithwaite), before feeding [Newlands Beck](/source/Newlands_Beck), on the way picking up **Barrow Gill** (running north from [Barrow](/source/Barrow_(Lake_District))). [Wainwright](/source/Alfred_Wainwright) singled out the latter stream for its exceptional ravine,[1] which he described as “a gorge of amazing proportions for so slender a stream and deeper even than [Piers Gill](/source/Lingmell)”.[2]

## Literary associations

- [David Wright](/source/David_Wright_(poet)) in his poem ‘Storm’ (about the exceptional cloudburst of 1966) wrote of the Beck how “I didn’t expect the animal under our bridge...the livid rapid/ That lipped the bank and, reared on hind legs, battered/ the stone arch, hurtling missiles…. The beck had its dander up, and wonderfully….”.[3]

## References

1. A Wainwright,*Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland* (London 1996) p. 209

1. A Wainwright *The North-Western Fells* (Kendall 1964) Barrow 2

1. N Nicholson ed., *The Lake District* (Penguin 1978) p. 154

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