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| Kentmere Reservoir, Kentmere | |||
| Kentmere Reservoir | |||
| site name:- | Kent, River | ||
| civil parish:- | Kentmere (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | reservoir | ||
| locality type:- | tarn | ||
| coordinates:- | NY444080 | ||
| 1Km square:- | NY4408 | ||
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | ||
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 175:- "... While this [Kentmere] tarn existed, the mills at Kendal were very irregularly supplied with water. Now, when the streams are collected in a reservoir, which the traveller sees in coming down" goto sourcePage 176:- "from the pass of Nanbield, and the intercepting tarn is done away with, the flow of water no longer fails." |
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| notes:- |
Built 1845-46 to regulate the water for mills lower down. |
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