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Eller Beck
Eller Beck is a small river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through the town of Skipton and is a tributary of the River Aire. Its channel was heavily modified to supply water for milling in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and although all milling has ceased, the water now supplies power to the National Grid, generated by a turbine at High Corn Mill. There are several underground culverts within the town, and these contribute to the flood risk. In order to alleviate flooding in Skipton town centre, a scheme involving two flood water storage reservoirs has been designed, but the start of the work to implement it was delayed in October 2014 by a shortfall in funding for the project.
==Course==
Eller Beck is formed from a series of streams rising in the hills to the north of Skipton. These include Black Sike, which rises above the contour on Out Fell, to the west of Upper Barden Reservoir, and several more which rise in Bilton Ings, close to the contour, to the south west of the reservoir. With the flow from a spring called Boiling Well, they form Waterfall Gill Beck, which then becomes Eller Beck. It flows around the northern and western edges of Nettlehole Wood and Crookwise Wood, to be joined by Sandy Beck before passing under the freight-only railway line to Swinden Quarry. The railway bridge is below the contour.〔Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 and 1:2,500 maps〕
The railway follows the valley of the beck as it is joined by Owlet House Beck, passes under two farm access bridges, and under Tarn Moor Bridge, which carries a minor road to Embsay.〔 The bridge dates from the late eighteenth century, and was altered in the mid nineteenth century. It has a single round arch, is constructed of squared rubble with stone dressings, and is a Grade II Listed structure. The river then meanders through Skipton Golf Club, where it acts as a water hazard for the back nine holes,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to Skipton Golf Club )〕 before it is joined by Haw Beck, which flows from the east alongside the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway for most of its length. It passes under the A65 Leeds to Kendal road through two large round tubes, to enter Skipton Woods.〔
The river through the woods was engineered to provide water which powered wool, corn and saw mills for two centuries. A dam across the river creates the stretch known as the Long Dam, and a sluice above the dam feeds water into the Round Dam,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Skipton Woods )〕 from where water enters a culvert and a high-level channel called Sandy Goit that once fed the mill near the entrance to the woods. Sougha Gill adds to the flow just below the dam, and further down, the water from the mill channel flows under the footpath through a stone lined channel to rejoin the river.〔 The mill began life as a cotton mill in 1785, and was built by Peter Garforth, John Blackburn and John Sidgwick. Wooden frames for spinning the cotton yarn were powered by water, but the water supply was not adequate to support two shifts, and production was scaled down. In 1825, the mill was extended, and the new section used steam power. By 1882, some weaving was carried out at the mill, but it was marked as disused on the 1891 Skipton Town plans.〔Ordnance Survey, 1:500 map, 1891〕
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