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Floutern Tarn, Loweswater
runs into:-    Mosedale Beck
Floutern Tarn
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   NY12461704 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1217
10Km square:-   NY11
altitude:-   1237 feet
altitude:-   377m
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 68 8) 
placename:-  Floutern 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.
evidence:-   possibly old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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outline, shore shaded; lake 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Floutern Tarn
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Floutern Tarn"
lake 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Fluttering Tarn
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
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page 71:-  "Ennerdale Water may be taken by foot or horsemen from the inn at Buttermere, by keeping the road down the meadows, and passing Scale Force on the left to a little lake called Fluttering Tarn, which must likewise be kept on the left: ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Fluttering Tarn
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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page 22:-  "... from the Inn at Buttermere, ... keeping the road down the"
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page 23:-  "meadows, and passing Scale Force on the left, to a little lake called Fluttering Tarn, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Floutern
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Floutern Tarn
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 39:-  "... Floutern Tarn serves as a landmark in passing between Buttermere and Ennerdale; ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Floutern Tarn
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Floutern Tarn"
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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