Would someone help me with the following terms?  beck, combe, dale, a water (reservoir?).

I may have a few more later on.  Thanks to any one of you who may help me.

Hi Linda!  I don't believe we've met.  I'm also from the USA - Virginia.  Welcome to POE!  In answer to your questions (according to my dictionary):

A beck is a small stream. 

Thanks Barbara.  When I was over in Britain I spent the majority of my time in the north of England, most especially in York and environs.  But I never saw the Yorkshire dales.  The moors, yes.  I was mainly in what was the East Riding of Yorkshire.  But climbing up a hill in Scarborough I did see Charlotte Bronte's gravesite in a modest little churchyard.  Wow.  Impressed me.  Also had the best fish & chips ever in Scarborough.

James, about your hat in your other pic.  By jaunty I meant it made you look debonair and devil-may-care.  I'm not sure jaunty means the same thing in UK.  Does it?

Barbara, Virginia has to be one of the most beautiful states in the union.  I am a native Californian.

Thanks, Linda.  I agree about Virginia's beauty, although living in northern Virginia (basically a huge suburb of Washington, DC) one has to drive out into the countryside a bit to get a real picture of the beauty by getting away from the traffic and congestion.

I've visited California a couple of times (San Diego, San Francisco) and very much enjoyed it. It too has a beauty all its own, and it's wonderful to be near the ocean.

Well, thank you very much indeed, James.  Love that pic.  I really must upload my pic (such as it is).  Got to figure out how to do it on POE.

Thanks, Barbara.  Yes, San Francisco & San Diego are perfectly lovely.  Gets cold in the summer in San Francisco.  San Diego is reputed to have the best weather in the world.  Where I grew up we had perfect weather also.  That was Costa Mesa, 35 miles south of LA & 15 miles south of Disneyland.  Too many people there now--very overcrowded in South Orange County & very expensive, also.  Have you ever been to far western Virginia?  You have to see Fancy Gap & Narrows, VA.

the pronounciation of Guiting Power is child's play compared to the little village where I grew up

 LYMPNE

 Try that for size! Nothing in the British Isles is pronounced as it is spelt, and it confuses the hell out of my American daughter-in-law