Black Dub (stream)

{{Short description|Stream in Cumbria, England}}

{{distinguish|text=Black Dub (album), a blues music album by the band of the same name}}

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{{Use British English|date=May 2018}}

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| name_other = Dub Stangs(from Langrigg to Westnewton)

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| image = File:Black Dub,nr Oldkiln - geograph.org.uk - 63943.jpg

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| image_caption = The Black Dub approaching the sea near Old Kiln and Edderside.

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| source1 = Langrigg

| source1_location = Bromfield civil parish

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| mouth = Dubmill

| mouth_location = Allonby Bay, Solway Firth

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| tributaries_right = Jordan Beck (Cumbria)

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The Black Dub is a stream in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It rises to the west of the village of Langrigg, in the civil parish of Bromfield, where it is known as Dub Stangs, and flows west past Scroggs Wood and the village of Westnewton.{{cite web|title=Google Maps - Black Dub/Dub Stangs|url=https://www.google.it/maps/@54.794116,-3.3469168,15z|accessdate=14 February 2015}} As it passes near the hamlets of New Cowper and Edderside it forms the southern boundary of the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert,{{cite web|title=Cumbria Atlas - Civil parish boundaries|url=http://cumbriaobservatory.org.uk/instantatlas/CumbriaGeographyAtlas/atlas.html|accessdate=14 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225135346/http://www.cumbriaobservatory.org.uk/instantatlas/CumbriaGeographyAtlas/atlas.html|archive-date=25 December 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|title=Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Black Dub|url=http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/lk00959.htm|accessdate=14 February 2015}} and the northern boundary of the civil parish of Allonby,{{cite web|title=Cumbria Rural Housing Trust - Housing Needs Report for Allonby, 2002. Page 4|url=http://www.crht.org.uk/attachments/article/206/Allonby%20Jan%2002.pdf|accessdate=14 February 2015}} before entering the Solway Firth at Dubmill, at the northern end of Allonby Bay. It is seven miles (eleven kilometres) in length.{{cite web|title=Cumberland River Board 14th Annual Report (1965). Page 15|url=http://aquaticcommons.org/10609/1/197_FourteenthAnnualReport1965.pdf|accessdate=16 February 2015}}

The stream appears in the historical record. In 1860, it was mentioned in the London Gazette, as the midpoint of the stream was to become the boundary between the townships of Langrigg and Mealrigg, and Westnewton.{{cite web|title=London Gazette 23rd November 1860|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22450/page/4405/data.pdf|accessdate=14 February 2015}} In 1969, an overflow channel was dug between the Black Dub and nearby Cross Beck, near the mouth of the streams. This was done by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Water Resources Act 1963.{{cite web|title=London Gazette 9th December 1969|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44984/page/12248/data.pdf|accessdate=14 February 2015}} It is classified as a "water feature" by Ordnance Survey.{{cite web|title=Explore Britain - Black Dub|url=http://dev.explorebritain.info/water-cumbria-black-dub-ny1044|accessdate=14 February 2015}} Numerous smaller irrigation channels serve as tributaries to the Black Dub, with the vast majority being within the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert. Its largest tributary is Jordan Beck, which rises near Jericho and flows through Plasketlands farm, Mawbray, and Salta, joining the Black Dub mere metres before it meets the sea.{{cite web|title=Google Maps - Black Dub/Jordan Beck|url=https://www.google.it/maps/@54.7934404,-3.4245088,16z|accessdate=14 February 2015}}

{{Coord|54.79153|-3.39350|type:river_region:GB-CMA|display=title}}