Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Tarn Wadling, Hesket
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	Tarn Wadling
site name:-	Inglewood Forest
civil parish:-	Hesket (formerly Cumberland) (?)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	lake (drained)
coordinates:-	NY48334445
1Km square:-	NY4844
10Km square:-	NY44
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 31 15)  placename:-  Tarn Wadling
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:-	text:-  placename:-  Ternewathelan
source data:-	Parsons, E J S: 1996 (reprint): Map of Great Britain circa AD1360 known as the Gough Map: Bodleian Library "East of Carlisle, between the Eden and the Petteril ... This is the mere called Ternewathelan in the Middle Ages and Tarn Wadling on the 6[in] Ordnance map."
evidence:-	old map:- Gough 1350s-60s placename:-  Wathelan, The
source data:-	Map, colour photozincograph copy, reduced size facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, scale about 28.5 miles to 1 inch, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1875.   click to enlarge Ggh1Cm.jpg "The Wathelan" Labelling an outline.  item:-  JandMN : 33 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old map:- Gough 1350s-60s placename:-  Wathelan, The
source data:-	Map, lithograph facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, 20 miles to 1 inch? published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1935.   click to enlarge Ggh2Cm.jpg "The Wathelan" Labelling an outline.  item:-  JandMN : 34 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)  placename:-  Tarn Wadling
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. D4NY44SE.jpg "Tarn Wadling" lake  item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1791 p.1079  "..." "To the information given by W.M." "(p.991)"
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag 1791 item:-  Arthurian legend
source data:-	goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1791 p.1080  "(p.991) about King Arthur and his round table, I shall beg leave to add, that the seat of this fabulous monarch was at Carlisle, and that Tarn Wadling, a spacious lake near Armanthwaite, is frequently mentioned in our old poetical romances concerning him. It is said, I think, that there is a city at the bottom of it. The origin of these local traditions is to be attributed to the Cambrian Britons, who kept possession of this part of the country long after the Saxons, and even Normans, were in possession of the rest. One seldom hears of King Arthur but in or near Wales, Cornwall, or Cumberland. The ballad, which I suspect your correspondent had not direct from Percy's Reliques, is incorrectly printed; but it is neither very antient nor very rare. He has taken it, I am persuaded, from Clarke's Survey of the Lakes. It is always candid, however, to cite the true authority, though it may not happen to be the most respectable." "Eamont (or Eimot) is a slight corruption of the Saxon Ea-muth, i.e. the water's mouth, meaning Ulleswater, whence this river flows. A Saxon name for a river is so uncommon a circumstance, that I should be glad to know whether its irruption might not have taken place subsequently to the settlement of that people." "... ..." "Yours, &c." "DEIRENSIS."
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag item:-  ballad; Sir Gawaine's Marriage; Adam Bell, Clym o' th' Clough, and William of Cloudeslee
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1816 part 2 p.601  Biographical note from the Compendium of County History:-  "... Tan Wadling Lake and Castle Hewin are the scene of a ballad in Percy's Collection, entitled 'Sir Gawaine's Marriage.' - 'Adam Bell, Clym o' th' Clough, and William of Cloudeslee,' three Cumberland archers and outlaws, are but little inferior in ballad celebrity to Robin Hood and Little John."
evidence:-	descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)  placename:-  Tarn Wadling
source data:-	Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.   goto source Page 175:-  "[High Hesket] ... On the right is Tarn Wadling, a lake covering about one hundred acres of ground."
evidence:-	old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:-  Tarn Wadling
source data:-	Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843. FD02NY44.jpg "Tarn Wadling" Outline with form lines.  item:-  JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old map:- Unknown 1910s placename:-  Tarn Wadling
source data:-	Map, ms black and colour inks, Tarn Wadling and area, Hesket, Cumberland, scale about 6 ins to 1 mile.   click to enlarge M043.jpg item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 304 Image © Carlisle Library
:-	There is a ?15th century poem, The Ballad of Tarn Wadling, or the Marriage of Sir Gawain, in which King Arthur, riding by the tarn in the Forest of Inglewood, is challenged by a giant.
	The tarn was drained in the 19th century; it is close to the site of Castle Hewin or Ewain.
	Nicholson, Norman: 1978: Lake District, an anthology: Penguin Books (Harmondsworth, Middlesex):: ISBN 0 14 004864 2; pp.184-190

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