Dacre Beck is a small river in

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...

, England. Dacre

Beck Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known mononymously as Beck, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his Experimental music, experimental and Lo-fi mus ...

rises on the north side of

Gowbarrow Fell Gowbarrow Fell (''Windy hill'') is a low fell in the English Lake District. It is an outlier of the Eastern Fells, standing to the north of Ullswater, bounded on one side by Aira Beck with its waterfall Aira Force. The waterfall is a popular at ...

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 Little Mell Fell (''Bare hill'', with the later additions of both "Fell" and "Little") is a small fell in the English Lake District. It is an outlier of the Eastern Fells, standing to the north of Ullswater near the village of Watermillock, and ...

, 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 is a hamlet approximately 800 yards (750 metres) west of Penruddock railway station on the former Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway within the Lake District National Park in Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North ...

'', near to ''

Penruddock Penruddock is a small village in Cumbria, England, 5.5 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 wo ...

''. From here, Dacre Beck flows past the ancient settlement of '' Dacre''. The beck is a

tributary A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...

of the

River Eamont The River Eamont is a river in Cumbria, England and one of the major tributaries of the River Eden. The name of the river is from Old English (ēa-gemōt) and is a back formation from Eamont Bridge which means the ''junction of streams.'' T ...

, which it joins at

Dalemain Dalemain is a country house around five miles southwest of Penrith, Cumbria, Penrith in Cumbria, England. It is a Grade I Listed building (United Kingdom), listed building. Dalemain sits within the Lake District National Park. History There is ...

near Stainton. Dacre Beck is a Celtic river name meaning ''the trickling one''.

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