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Wharton Tarn, Hawkshead
Wharton Tarn
High Cross Tarn
Jenny Greenteeth Tarn
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   SD33119881
1Km square:-   SD3398
10Km square:-   SD39
altitude:-   585 feet
altitude:-   179m

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 13) 
placename:-  Wharton Tarn
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.

hearsay:-  
They say; it is haunted by an ugly old woman, Jenny Greenteeth.

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