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Whernside Tarns, Dent
Whernside Tarns
locality:-   Whernside
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   SD740833
1Km square:-   SD7483
10Km square:-   SD78


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BUG42.jpg (taken 24.3.2011)  

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century 
Page 270:-  "... we ventured to ascend to the summit [of Whernside]. ... We were surprised to see four or five tarns, or pools of water, on a plain very near the summit of Whernside. Two of them were large, being two or three hundred yards in length, and nearly of the same breadth (for one was almost circular, but the other oblong.) ..."

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
source data:-   Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about 1890.
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page 78:-  "On the flat moorland just beyond [Greensett Moss] are two almost confluent tarns, jointly about three hundred yards long, and very shallow with smooth bottom of peat. About three hundred feet higher, on the other end of Whernside, near Dent, are three somewhat smaller tarns."

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