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placename:- | Red Tarn | |
locality:- | Helvellyn | |
parish |
Patterdale parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:- | Cumbria | |
lake | ||
coordinates:- |
NY347152 | |
10Km square:- |
NY31 | |
1Km square | NY3415 | |
![]() Red Tarn -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009 | ||
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Mason 1907 (edn 1930)
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Page 20:- | ||
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The best way to see the mountain [Helvellyn] in its grandeur is to follow the track that leads up by the Red Tarn. A tarn is a small mere, or lake, high up among the mountains. This Red Tarn lies in a dip about 600 feet from the summit. It is shut in between two sloping walls of rock, the Striding Edge, and the Swirral Edge, ... | ||
date:- | 1907 | |
period:- | 1900s | |
source:- |
Philip/Wilson 1890s
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STRIDING EDGE AND RED TARN, HELVELLYN. | ||
date:- | 1895 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
old photograph:- |
Bell 1880s-1940s
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Photograph, black and white, Red Tarn, Helvellyn, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. | ||
internegative at lower right:- | ||
H. Bell | ||
date:- | 1890=1899 | |
period:- | 19th century, late | |
old photograph:- |
Bell 1880s-1940s
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Photograph, black and white, Red Tarn, Helvellyn, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. | ||
internegative at lower right:- | ||
H. Bell | ||
person:- | photographer : Bell, Herbert | |
date:- | 1890=1899 | |
period:- | 19th century, late | |
source:- |
Martineau 1855
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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. | ||
Page 180:- | ||
A TABLE OF THE LENGTH, BREADTH, AND DEPTH OF THE LAKES. | ||
No. : Names of Lakes. : Counties : Length in Miles. : Extreme breadth in Miles : Extreme depth in Feet : Height above the Sea | ||
6 : Red Tarn, Helvellyn : Westmorland : - : - : - : 2400 | ||
date:- | 1855 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
old map:- |
Garnett 1850s-60s H
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Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. | ||
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Red Tarn | ||
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn | ||
placename:- | Red Tarn | |
date:- | 1850=1869 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s | |
descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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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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... Red Tarn, also of considerable extent, containing about twenty acres, is upon the | ||
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highest level of any of the mountain tarns; being upwards of two thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea, and about seven hundred feet below the summit of Helvellyn; from whence into it you might almost cast a stone. ... | ||
date:- | 1823 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1820s | |
source:- |
Otley 1818
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New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s. | ||
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lake | ||
old print:- |
Robertson 1911
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Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. | ||
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Print, lithograph? Red Tarn, Helvellyn, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. | ||
Tipped in opposite p.226 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. | ||
Striding Edge in the foreground. | ||
printed at bottom:- | ||
RED TARN, HELVELLYN | ||
signed at painting lower left:- | ||
Arthur Tucker | ||
placename:- | Red Tarn | |
date:- | 1911 | |
period:- | 1910s | |
old print:- |
Jenkinson 1875
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Guide book, A Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 4th edition 1875. | ||
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Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Helvellyn, Westmorland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875. | ||
... Red Tarn ... | ||
placename:- | Red Tarn | |
date:- | 1875 | |
period:- | 19th century, late | |
old print:- |
Fielding 1822 (plate 23)
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Set of prints, aquatints, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire Illustrated, drawn by Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding, published by Thomas McLean, 10 Frith Street, Soho Square, London, 1822. | ||
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Print, uncoloured engraving, Red Tarn, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Theodore H A Fielding, published by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, London, et al, 1822. | ||
Plate 23 in the set of prints, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire Illustrated. | ||
printed at bottom, left, centre:- | ||
T. Fielding delt. / RED TARN. | ||
placename:- | Red Tarn | |
date:- | 1822 | |
period:- | 19th century, early | |
old photograph:- |
Bogg 1898
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Book, Lakeland and Ribblesdale, OR A Thousand Miles of Wandering along the Roman Wall, the Old Border Region, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg, publishd by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898. | ||
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Photograph, halftone print, Red Tarn, Helvellyn, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumbria, by W G Foster, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898. | ||
Included on p.172 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. | ||
placename:- | Red Tarn | |
date:- | ||
period:- | 19th century, late | |
photographs | ||
![]() | Red Tarn -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- Striding Edge behind. -- 20.6.2011 | |
![]() | Red Tarn -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- Striding Edge behind. -- 20.6.2011 | |
![]() | Red Tarn -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- Helvellyn behind. -- 20.6.2011 | |
photographs | ||
Artificial outlet. | ||
![]() | Red Tarn -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011 | |
![]() | Red Tarn -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011 | |
![]() | Red Tarn Mine, Lakes | |
Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013 | ||