Skirden Beck

Skirden Beck is a minor river in Lancashire. Formerly, the Beck was in the county of Yorkshire.

The Beck is formed at the confluence of New Gill Beck and Grunsagill Beck and flows southward, being joined by Monubent Beck (at Forest Becks near Skirden), Bier Beck, Kirk Beck and finally Holden Beck.

Skirden Beck falls into the River Ribble near Briery Bank Wood.

Tributaries

Holden Beck

Holden Beck rises at Dugdales where Threap Green Brook (falling south from Ling Hill picks up another stream near Greenwoods) and flows southwards to its confluence with Skirden Beck. Through Alder House Wood and Clough Wood, between Mear Gill Top and Holden, this stream takes the name Mear Gill.

Fell Brook rises on Grindleton Fell and drains into Mear Gill at Mear Gill Top.
- Bay Gate Brook, rising near Higher Heights, joins near Bay Gate.
- Far Fields Brook joins near Harrop Gate, having risen to the south on Grindleton Fell.
- Black Brook rises near Bambers and skirts to the north of Harrop Fell, joining Fell Brook close to the medieval village of Harrop Fold.

Kirk Beck

Like Skirden Beck, Kirk Beck flows through Bolton-by-Bowland. Prior to this, it is known as Fox Gill Beck (Fox Ghyll is just to the north of Bolton-by-Bowland). Fox Gill Beck rises near Monubent.

Gill Bottom Beck rises near Small Field Plantation and joins Fox Gill Beck at Ghyll Bottom.

Bier Beck

Bier Beck rises just above Big Holme.

Hungrill Beck rises between Anna Lane Head and Mear Gill Farm.
- Higher Syke joins near Wycongill. It is formed at the confluence of Bleara Syke (rising at New Barn) and Varleys Syke (whose source is near Knotts).
Cuddy Syke rises near Lodge Farm.

Monubent Beck

Monubent Beck flows west then north, joining Skirden Beck at Forest Becks. It is swollen by Hen Gill Beck, itself picking up Agden Beck, known above Mere Syke Bridge as Mere Syke.

Grunsagill Beck

Grunsagill Beck and New Gill Beck meet near Brackenhurst.

Grunsagill Beck, before Grunsagill is known as Tosside Beck. Tosside Beck flows south from Bent House, prior to which it is known as Holden Beck or Moor End Beck.

New Gill Beck

New Gill Beck flows from Beckfoot, above which it is known as Bond Beck. Bond Beck rises in Skirden Hall Plantation. It flows south by south east past Ghylls.

Walkers Clough is a short stream running east from Knotts to its meeting with New Gill Beck at Beckfoot.
Little Beck flows east from Stephen Moor to Butter Fields, where it joins Bond Beck.
Sandy Syke rises at Black Hill in Gisburn Forest.

Coordinates: 53°55′31″N 2°20′06″W / 53.9254°N 2.3349°W / 53.9254; -2.3349

Rivers and watercourses of Lancashire

Rivers	Blakewater Brock Brun Calder (Ribble) Calder (Wyre) Chor Cocker Conder Darwen Don Douglas Dunsop Greta Grizedale Hindburn Hyndburn Hodder Irwell Keer Laneshaw Lostock Loud Lune Ogden Ribble Roddlesworth Roeburn Spodden Tawd Wenning Wyre Yarrow

Canals	Lancaster Leeds & Liverpool Ribble Link

Others	Artle Beck Bashall Brook Black Brook Bradshaw Brook Broad Fleet Colne Water Dinckley Brook Eagley Brook Freckleton Pool Green Withins Brook Hyndburn Brook Leck Beck Naden Brook Pendle Water Pendleton Brook Sabden Brook Skirden Beck Stock Beck Stydd Brook Wycoller Beck

Geography of the Borough of Ribble Valley

Towns

Villages
& suburbs

Parishes

Topography

Centre of Great Britain Forest of Bowland Forest of Pendle Stocks Reservoir Stonyhurst Trough of Bowland

Footpaths	Ribble Way Lancashire Witches Walk

Hills	Easington Fell Fair Snape Fell Hawthornthwaite Fell Longridge Fell Parlick Pendle Hill White Hill Wolfhole Crag

Waterways	Bashall Brook Dinckley Brook R Calder R Dunsop R Hodder R Loud Pendleton Brook R Ribble tributaries Sabden Brook Skirden Beck Stock Beck Stydd Brook

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