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Beckhead Tarn, Ennerdale and Kinniside
Beckhead Tarn
Beck Head Tarn
locality:-   Beck Head
civil parish:-   Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   NY20521069
coordinates:-   NY20601065
1Km square:-   NY2010
10Km square:-   NY21
altitude:-   2044 feet
altitude:-   623m


photograph
BNM74.jpg  Dry.
(taken 4.4.2007)  
photograph
BUV30.jpg  On the right.
(taken 27.6.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 74) 
placename:-  Beckhead 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.
"Beckhead Tarn"

notes:-  
The more westerly tarn is named Beckhead Tarn, and often dries out. The more easterly tarn is unnamed?

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