Blindbeck

Curwen, 1900 p155

Dr. Burn describes the origins of this little brook as one which, having a small current and, as it were, seeking for a passage, obscurity of its source, its feeders being lost in the fissures of the limestone rocks of Gilling Grove, "unless it be derived," he says, "from the English word Blaen," signifying a point or extremity - i.e., "the town-end beck." At one time - see Todd's plan - the beck flowed openly across the road, with but a narrow bridge wide enough for one cart to pass over, and with a parapet wall on either side only about a foot high. The bridge was rebuilt and widened to the full width of the road in 1823.