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Rigg Beck

Rigg Beck

River in Cumbria, England

Rigg Beck is a minor river of Cumbria in England.

Rigg Beck is also the name of a famous dwelling – the Purple House[1] – placed where the Beck crosses the Keskadale road, and which formed an excellent starting point for exploring the fells.[2]

Source and course

Rigg Beck arises at the top of the high pass between Ard Crags and Causey Pike, of the latter of which it forms one boundary.[3] The beck flows eventually into Newlands Beck.[4]

The path alongside Rigg Beck forms an attractive pedestrian route between Newlands Valley and Buttermere.[5]

Literary associations

  • The Scottish poet Margot Adamson wrote of the beck “Young as the grass that fringes where it sprays,/Old as the clefts from whence it takes its flight”.[6]
  • The Purple House (Rigg Beck) was associated with poets like Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Famous Purple House...
  2. [2]
    A Wainwright, The North-Western Fells (Kendall 1964) Ard Crags 3
  3. [3]
    A Wainwright, The North-Western Fells (Kendall 1964) Ard Crags 1 and Causey Pike 2
  4. [4]
    A Wainwright, The North-Western Fells (Kendall 1964) Causey Pike 2
  5. [5]
    A Wainwright, Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland (London 1996) p. 214
  6. [6]
    G Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District (London 1993) p. 199

54°34′16″N 3°11′02″W


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