Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Stony Tarn
	parish	Eskdale parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	NY199024
	10Km square:-	NY10
	1Km square	NY1902
		Stony Tarn -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- 4.6.2013
		Stony Tarn -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- 4.6.2013
	old map:-	OS County Series (Cmd 79 11)
		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.
	placename:-	Stony Tarn
		lake
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	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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		Page 39:-
		There are some other small tarns, of little consequence in themselves, and seldom seen by strangers; therefore they scarcely require to be noticed. Such are Eel Tarn, Stony Tarn, and Blea Tarn, in Eskdale, and the two tarns above Bowderdale in the Wasdale mountains.
	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 Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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