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Red Tarn, Lakes
runs into:-    Browney Gill
Red Tarn
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   NY26800372 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2603
10Km square:-   NY20
altitude:-   1720 feet
altitude:-   524m
SummaryText:-   a couple of timny tarns above, SE.

photograph
BTR20.jpg (taken 11.10.2010)  
photograph
BTR21.jpg (taken 11.10.2010)  
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.
image
GAR2NY20.jpg
outline, lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Red Tarn
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2NY20.jpg
"Red Tarn"
lake 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BXG79.jpg (taken 3.9.2012)  
hearsay:-  
 Lanty Slee had one of his illicit whisky stills about here, 1860.
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