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Beckfoot
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Beckfoot is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert in Cumbria, England. It is located on the B5300 coast road, three miles south of Silloth-on-Solway and two miles north of the village of Mawbray. The county town of Carlisle is twenty-five miles away to the east.
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- Instance of
- hamlet
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Holme St Cuthbert
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Beach-side house at Beckfoot in Cumbria - geograph.org.uk - 1945917.jpg
- Dialing code
- 016973
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- Commons category
- Beckfoot
- postal code
- CA7
- OS grid reference
- NY094498
- historic county
- Cumberland
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Beckfoot is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert in Cumbria, England. It is located on the B5300 coast road, three miles south of Silloth-on-Solway and two miles north of the village of Mawbray. The county town of Carlisle is twenty-five miles away to the east.
==History and toponymy== The name "Beckfoot" is derived from the Old Norse bekkr-futr, meaning "the mouth of a stream". Beck is a local word in Cumbrian dialect for a stream. Such a beck empties into the Solway Firth at the southern end of the hamlet, and it is this watercourse which gives the settlement its name. There are two known recorded variant spellings: Beck and Beckfoote.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beckfoot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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