English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Whale Beck

Other OS name in the Parish of Lowther

Historical Forms

  • the beke 1425 NB

Etymology

, the beke 1425 NB 424 , v. Whale (supra ) , bekkr .