River Esk (Cumbria)

Wha House Bridge, Eskdale

The River Esk is the name of a river in the northern English Lake District National Park.

He is one of two rivers with this name in Cumbria, and not to be confused with the River Esk, which flows near the Scottish border.

The river rises in the Sca Fell massif at an altitude of about 750 meters below the pass between Great End and Esk home Esk Pike. The swelling river flows through the Great Moss, where it is fed by numerous smaller streams, one of whose essential Little Narrowcove, which rises east below Mickledore between Sca Fell and Scafell Pike. After some steep steps at the end of the Great Moss it is amplified in the further course of Lingcove Beck and Hardknott Beck to flow through the valley of Eskdale and at Ravenglass in an estuary in which the rivers Mite and Irt flow into the Irish Sea lead.

The origin of the name is derived from the Old Welsh word esk for " water ", but also from the short form for Esker (or Os), as examples of this geological formation are present in the course of the river.