Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Red Tarn
	locality:-	Helvellyn
	parish	Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	NY347152
	10Km square:-	NY31
	1Km square	NY3415
		Red Tarn -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009
	text:-	Mason 1907 (edn 1930)
		Page 20:-
		...
		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
		STRIDING EDGE AND RED TARN, HELVELLYN.
	date:-	1895
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	old photograph:-	Bell 1880s-1940s
		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
		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
		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
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		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)
		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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		Page 35:-
		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
		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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	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		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
		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.
		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)
		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.
		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
		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.
		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

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