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Low Birker Tarn, Eskdale
runs into:-    Low Birker Pool

Low Birker Tarn
civil parish:-   Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   SD19029949
1Km square:-   SD1999
10Km square:-   SD19
altitude:-   814 feet
altitude:-   248m


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CDF14.jpg (taken 4.6.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 83 3) 
placename:-  Low Birker Tarn
placename:-  Birker Tarn, Low
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:-   old map:- Otley 1818
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.
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OT02SD19.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   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.
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GAR2SD19.jpg
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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