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Moss Eccles Tarn, Claife
runs into:-    Wanefell Beck

Moss Eccles Tarn
civil parish:-   Claife (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   SD37189684
1Km square:-   SD3796
10Km square:-   SD39
altitude:-   544 feet
altitude:-   166m


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CGS37.jpg (taken 12.10.2017)  
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CGS38.jpg (taken 12.10.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 7) 
placename:-  Moss Eccles Moss
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.


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CGS39.jpg (taken 12.10.2017)  


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CGS40.jpg  Sign
(taken 12.10.2017)  

hearsay:-  
Beatrix Potter kept a rowing boat here. This tarn and Esthwaite Water were the settings of the Tale of Jeremy Fisher.

Blair 1993

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