Everything about River Esk Cumbria totally explained
The
River Esk is a river in the
Lake District in
Cumbria,
England. It is one of two River Esks in Cumbria, and not to be confused with the
River Esk which flows near the Scottish border.
It rises in the
Sca Fell range of mountains at a height of 800 metres, just below
Esk Hause, the mountain pass between the fells of
Great End and
Esk Pike. The infant river then flows southerly through wild and picturesque countryside making the leap over several waterfalls before being joined by its first major tributary Lingcove Beck at Lingcove Bridge. Within a few miles the Esk passes Brotherilkeld Farm, which formerly belonged to the monks of Furness Abbey, at this point it's joined by Hardknott Beck and the river now flows westerly through the farmland of
Eskdale and is accompanied by the motor road which goes down the valley. The Esk continues past the small villages of Boot and Eskdale Green before joining the
Irish Sea at
Ravenglass. The name
Esk is a shortened form of the word 'esker' - this is a landform caused by glacial deposition. The river is so named because there's a prime example of an esker in the Esk's valley.
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