Bedburn Beck is a long, upper tributary of the

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, England. The

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and its tributaries, including the Euden, Harthorpe and South Grain becks, have a

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of , much of which is covered by the coniferous

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Its headwaters rise on the high ground of Woodland Fell, where it is known as the Spurlswood Beck which flows in an easterly direction through a rocky

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of the same name. It then enters

, where it is joined by the Euden Beck and becomes known as the Bedburn Beck. Passing beside the hamlet of Redford before being joined by the Ayhope or South Grain Beck, it then reaches the village of Bedburn where it is bridged by a minor road. Beyond the village it meets the Harthorpe Beck, before descending into the Wear valley between Hamsterley and

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The

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of the beck has been measured at a

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in its lower reaches at Bedburn since 1959. The catchment to the station of measures 99% of the total catchment of the beck, and yields an average flow of . The highest river level recorded at the station occurred on the 17 July 2009, with a height of and a flow of . The catchment has an average annual rainfall of and a maximum altitude of near Pawlaw Pike at the western edge of the basin. Land use within the basin is rural, consisting of moorland, grassland and the coniferous Hamsterley Forest.

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