Black Dub (stream)

Not to be confused with Black Dub (album), a blues music album by the band of the same name.

The Black Dub is a stream in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It rises to the west of the village of Langrigg, in the civil parish of Bromfield, where it is known as Dub Stangs, and flows west past Scroggs Wood and the village of Westnewton.^[1] As it passes near the hamlets of New Cowper and Edderside it forms the southern boundary of the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert,^[2][3] and the northern boundary of the civil parish of Allonby,^[4] before entering the Solway Firth at Dubmill, at the northern end of Allonby Bay. It is seven miles (eleven kilometres) in length.^[5]

Black Dub Dub Stangs(from Langrigg to Westnewton)
The Black Dub approaching the sea near Old Kiln and Edderside.
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Physical characteristics
Source	Langrigg
• location	Bromfield civil parish
Mouth	Dubmill
• location	Allonby Bay, Solway Firth
Length	7 mi (11 km)
Basin features
Tributaries
• right	Jordan Beck (Cumbria)

The stream appears in the historical record. In 1860, it was mentioned in the London Gazette, as the midpoint of the stream was to become the boundary between the townships of Langrigg and Mealrigg, and Westnewton.^[6] In 1969, an overflow channel was dug between the Black Dub and nearby Cross Beck, near the mouth of the streams. This was done by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Water Resources Act 1963.^[7] It is classified as a "water feature" by Ordnance Survey.^[8] Numerous smaller irrigation channels serve as tributaries to the Black Dub, with the vast majority being within the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert. Its largest tributary is Jordan Beck, which rises near Jericho and flows through Plasketlands farm, Mawbray, and Salta, joining the Black Dub mere metres before it meets the sea.^[9]

54.79153°N 3.39350°W / 54.79153; -3.39350

References

1. "Google Maps - Black Dub/Dub Stangs". Retrieved 14 February 2015.
2. "Cumbria Atlas - Civil parish boundaries". Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
3. "Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Black Dub". Retrieved 14 February 2015.
4. "Cumbria Rural Housing Trust - Housing Needs Report for Allonby, 2002. Page 4" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.
5. "Cumberland River Board 14th Annual Report (1965). Page 15" (PDF). Retrieved 16 February 2015.
6. "London Gazette 23rd November 1860" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.
7. "London Gazette 9th December 1969" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2015.
8. "Explore Britain - Black Dub". Retrieved 14 February 2015.
9. "Google Maps - Black Dub/Jordan Beck". Retrieved 14 February 2015.