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Blind Tarn, Torver
Blind Tarn
locality:-   Old Man of Coniston
civil parish:-   Torver (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   SD26239671
1Km square:-   SD2696
10Km square:-   SD29
altitude:-   1834 feet
altitude:-   559m


photograph
CBP34.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 7 14) 
placename:-  Blind 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:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
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.
image OT01P036, button  goto source
Page 36:-  "... Blind Tarn, a small reservoir of water without a stream, lies near the road to Seathwaite, by Walna Scar. ..."

evidence:-   probably old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
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.
image
GAR2SD29.jpg
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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