Rusland Pool is a small river or beck

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 running through the administrative county of Cumbria

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. Before 1974, Rusland Pool was in Lancashire

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The source of Rusland Pool is to be found in Grizedale Forest

Grizedale Forest

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 Park, where several streams draining Monk Coniston Moor and Hawkshead Moor converge near Jack Gap Plantation. The beck then follows a southerly course through Grizedale Forest Park, flowing past the settlements of Grizedale

Grizedale

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 and Satterthwaite

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 and being joined by Ashes Beck at Rusland, before continuing its course through the Rusland Valley, before its waters join the estuarine River Leven at Pool Foot near Haverthwaite

Haverthwaite

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The name of the stream has not always been Rusland Pool - John Speed's 1610 map of Lancashire records the name as Foße fl. (i.e. River Fosse). In 2007, otters were found to have returned to Rusland Pool after many years absence.