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| Urswick Tarn, Urswick | ||
| runs into:- |  Gleaston Beck |
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| Urswick Tarn | ||
| locality:- | Great Urswick | |
| civil parish:- | Urswick (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tarn | |
| locality type:- | flood | |
| coordinates:- | SD27037444 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2774 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
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 Click to enlarge BRF32.jpg (taken 31.7.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 10) placename:- Urswick Tarn |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784. Ws02SD27.jpg item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes,
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to
1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies,
Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick,
Cumberland, et al, 1833. OT02SD27.jpg item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H |
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| 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. GAR2SD27.jpg outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| story:- |
It is said: there was once no tarn and the village of Urswick stood where it now lies.
In a drought the local women complained to the priest that he should pray for rain,
not waste time on masses. So rains came, but the water was brown and muddy, and the
cattle refused to drink. So the priest was persuaded to pray for another change. So
more rains came, and flooded the village, except the church, and made the tarn. |
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