Rigg Beck
Rigg Beck is a minor river of Cumbria in England.
Rigg Beck is also the name of a famous dwelling – the Purple House – placed where the Beck crosses the Keskadale road, and which formed an excellent starting point for exploring the fells.
Literary associations
- The Scottish poet Margot Adamson wrote of the beck “Young as the grass that fringes where it sprays,/Old as the clefts from whence it takes its flight”.
- The Purple House was associated with poets like Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.