Torver Beck
The Torver Beck is in minor stream in Lancashire, within the Furness Fells in the south part of the Lake District
The beck's source is in the Goat's Water, a tarn lying between Dow Crag to the west and the Old Man of Coniston to the east. From these fells, the beck runs swiftly south-eastwards gathering streams from Little Arrow Moor on the southern slope of the Old Man towards Coniston Water.
A mile and a half from the lake, the beck receives the Ash Gill Beck and the streams accompanying it from off the slopes below the Walna Scar Road and runs down to Torver.
Below Torver the beck runs down south-eastwards to Coniston Water.
The mouth of the beck on Coniston may have inspired the 'Amazon River' in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books: the Blacketts live at 'Beckfoot' at the mouth of the river, the hand-drawn illustrations of which resemble the foot of the Torver Beck.
