Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Bleaberry Tarn
	parish	Buttermere parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	NY165154
	10Km square:-	NY11
	1Km square	NY1615
		Bleaberry Tarn -- Buttermere -- Cumbria / -- 17.8.2011
		Bleaberry Tarn -- Buttermere -- Cumbria / -- 1.11.2011
	source:-	Martineau 1855
		Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71.
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		... Sourmilk Ghyll ... issues from Bleaberry, or Burtness Tarn, on the side of Red Pike. ...
	placename:-	Bleaberry Tarn
	other name:-	Burtness Tarn
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Bleaberry T.
		outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn
	placename:-	Bleaberry Tarn
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		(The comb between the 1st and 2nd is BUrtness Combe.)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		[Burt]ness Tarn, or Bleaberry Tarn, lies of the south-west side of Buttermere, in a recess between High Stile and Red Pike; its stream forms the cataract called Sour-milk gill. ...
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		... three adjoining summits are called High-crag, High-stile, and Red-pike. ... between the second and third lies Burtness Tarn.
	placename:-	Burtness Tarn
	other name:-	Bleaberry Tarn
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		Blebba Tarn
		Drawn detached from the river, indicating it is further off?
	placename:-	Blebba Tarn
		lake
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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		... large hollow craters scooped in their bosoms, once the seeming seats of raging liquid fire, though at present overflowing with the purest water, that foams down the craggy brows; ...
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		... Four spiral towering mountains, ... The more southern is, by the dalesmen, from its form, called Hay-rick; the more pyramidal High-crag; the third High-style; and the fourth, from its ferruginous colour, Red-pike. Between the second and third there is a large crater, that, from the parched colour of the conical mountains,
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		in whose bosom it is formed, appears to have been the focus of a volcano, in some distant period of time, when the cones were produced by explosion. At present it is the reservoir of water, that feeds the roaring cataract you see in the descent to Buttermere. Here all is barrenness, solitude, and silence, only interrupted by the murmurs of a rill, that runs unseen in the bottom of a deep dell. ...
		volcano; caldera
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		outline with form lines
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Smith 1751
		Map of the Black Lead Mines in Cumberland, and area, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by George Smith, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751.
		Bleeby Tarn
		outline with form lines; lake
	placename:-	Bleeby Tarn
	date:-	1751
	period:-	18th century, late; 1750s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Cmd) -- probably relevant
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Outline with shore shading.
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Jansson 1646 -- probably relevant
		Map, Cumbria et Westmoria, or Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724.
		Outline with shore shaded, dotted area.
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1646
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Cmd) -- probably relevant
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		outline, shaded, oversize
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Saxton 1579 -- perhaps relevant
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	county:-	Cumberlandia
		lake
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	old print:-	Black 1856
		Guide book, Black's Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, or Soho Square, London, 1856 to 1900s onwards.
		Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Buttermere - Mountains as seen from the Knots near the Hotel at Buttermere, and Mountains as seen at the Seat in Lanthwaite Wood, Scale Hill, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
		... 10 Bleaberry Tarn ... 11 Situation of Bleaberry Tarn ...
	placename:-	Bleaberry Tarn
	date:-	1900
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846)
		Guide book, Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Blck, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, 1841 to 1888.
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from The Knots near the Victoria at Buttermere, and Mountains as seen at the Seat in Lanthwaite Wood, Scale Hill, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
		... 10 Bleaberry Tarn ... 11 Situation of Bleaberry Tarn ...
	placename:-	Bleaberry Tarn
	date:-	1844
	period:-	19th century, early
		photographs
		The tarn sits in a cirque, with what looks like another cirque above it.
		Bleaberry Tarn -- Buttermere -- Cumbria / -- 17.8.2011
		Bleaberry Tarn -- Buttermere -- Cumbria / -- 16.4.2008
		Bleaberry Tarn -- Buttermere -- Cumbria / -- Hills behind; High Stile, Chapel Crags, Red Pike. -- 1.11.2011
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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