Dacre Beck is a small river in

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. ...

, England. Dacre

Beck Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical colla ...

rises on the north side of

Gowbarrow Fell Gowbarrow Fell (''Windy hill'') is a low fell in the England, English Lake District National Park, 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 Air ...

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, a ...

, before changing its course to eastward at ''Thackthwaite''. The beck collects more streams at ''Hutton'', one of which comes south from ''Berrier'' past '' Beckces'', 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 wor ...

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

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or 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 drain the surrounding drainag ...

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.'' Th ...

, which it joins at

Dalemain Dalemain is a country house around 5 miles south-west of Penrith in Cumbria, England. It is a Grade I listed building. Dalemain is part of the Lake District UNESCO World Heritage Site. History There is evidence of a settlement at Dalemain in Sa ...

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

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