Beckces

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Beckces
Cumberland

Chapel House, Beckces
Location
Grid reference: NY416277
Location: 54°38’28"N, 2°54’14"W
Data
Post town: Penrith
Postcode: CA11
Dialling code: 017684
Local Government
Council: Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary
constituency:
Penrith and The Border

Beckces is a hamlet in Cumberland, deep in land and at the edge of the Lake District fell country. It stands just north of the A66 Penrith to Keswick road, just 300 yards north of this main road.

The village is just with the northern boundary of the Lake District National Park (the bounds of which are drawn along the lane at the north of the village). Penruddock is less than a mile east of Beckces.

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