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| Whernside Tarns, Dent | ||
| Whernside Tarns | ||
| locality:- | Whernside | |
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tarn | |
| coordinates:- | SD740833 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7483 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by
William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in
London, 1778 to 1821. goto sourceTour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century Page 270:- "... we ventured to ascend to the summit [of Whernside]. ... We were surprised to see four or five tarns, or pools of water, on a plain very near the summit of Whernside. Two of them were large, being two or three hundred yards in length, and nearly of the same breadth (for one was almost circular, but the other oblong.) ..." |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Balderston c1890 |
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| source data:- | Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret
Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and
by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about
1890. goto source page 78:- "On the flat moorland just beyond [Greensett Moss] are two almost confluent tarns, jointly about three hundred yards long, and very shallow with smooth bottom of peat. About three hundred feet higher, on the other end of Whernside, near Dent, are three somewhat smaller tarns." |
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