Rusland Pool

Rusland Pool in its lower reaches

Rusland Pool is a small stream or beck running through the Furness district of Lancashire, and which enters the River Leven at the head of its estuary.

The source of Rusland Pool is to be found in Grizedale Forest Park, where several streams draining Monk Coniston Moor and Hawkshead Moor converge near Jack Gap Plantation (where Rusland Pool is known as Grizedale Beck).

The beck then follows a southerly course through Grizedale Forest Park, flowing past the settlements of Grizedale and Satterthwaite (where it collects Farra Grain, becoming Force Beck) and being joined by Ashes Beck at Rusland. It takes its name from Rusland from this point, and thence continues its course through the Rusland Valley, before its waters join the head of the Leven Estuary at Pool Foot near Haverthwaite.

The name of the stream has not always been Rusland Pool - John Speed's 1610 map of Lancashire records the name as Foße fl. (which is to say 'River Fosse', possibly an echo of the current name of its tributary, the Force Beck).

In 2007, otters were found to have returned to Rusland Pool after many years' absence.

Tributaries

Grizedale Beck in the Grizedale Forest near Moor Top

• Wear Beck (R)
• Black Beck (R)
• Skowbarrow Beck (L)
• Yew Beck (R)
  • Bell Beck (L)
• Ashes Beck (L)
  • Dale Park Beck (R)
  • Little Mire Beck (L)
• Force Beck (R)
  • Farra Grain (R)
    • Farra Grain Gill (L)
      • Bell Beck (R)
  • Grizedale Beck (R)

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