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Tarn, Culgaith
locality:-   Culgaith
civil parish:-   Culgaith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   field
coordinates:-   NY61272984 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY6129
10Km square:-   NY62
SummaryText:-   The area used to be a pond.

photograph
BWN20.jpg  With an interpretive panel,
(taken 25.5.2012)  
hearsay:-  
 This area was the village pond. It was drained in the 1930s when piped water came to the village, and was then used for grazing. A small rise to the east was the location of the stocks, known as Stocks Hill.
In early spring The Tarn was alive with mating frogs, whose noise kept the villagers awake. Mawty Thomlinson used to get so annoyed that he'd fired his shotgun over the pond: this silenced them ... for a few minutes! The frog's chorus was known as Mawty's Band.
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