Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Angle Tarn, Borrowdale
runs into:-	Angletarn Gill
	Angle Tarn
civil parish:-	Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	tarn
coordinates:-	NY24430765
1Km square:-	NY2407
10Km square:-	NY20
altitude:-	1854 feet
altitude:-	565m
	BQL58.jpg (taken 20.4.2009)   Click to enlarge BPF57.jpg (taken 20.5.2008)
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. OT02NY20.jpg item:-  JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)  item:-  fishing; perch
source data:-	Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.   goto source Page 37:-  "... Angle Tarn, stocked only with a few perch, is at the head of the stream belonging to the branch of Borrowdale called Langstreth. At the foot of Eagle Crag, this is joined by another stream from the branch of Greenup; and after passing Stonethwaite and Rosthwaite, joins the Seathwaite branch a little further down the vale. ..."
evidence:-	old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:-  Angle Tarn
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. GAR2NY20.jpg "Angle T." outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn  item:-  JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908)  placename:-  Angle Tarn
source data:-	Print, colour halftone, Angle Tarn, Borrowdale, Cumberland, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.   click to enlarge HC0167.jpg Opposite p.204 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer.  printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "ANGLE TARN, ESK HAUSE" printed at signed lower left:-  "A HEATON COOPER" item:-  JandMN : 468.67 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old print:- MacBride 1922 placename:-  Angle Tarn
source data:-	Print, colour, Angle Tarn, Esk Hause, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928.   click to enlarge MB0108.jpg Tipped in opposite p.37 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride.  printed at bottom:-  "ANGLE TARN, ESK HAUSE" signed at lower left:-  "A. HEATON COOPER" item:-  JandMN : 195.10 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old print:- Prior 1865 placename:-  Angle Tarn
source data:-	Print, uncoloured engraving, Angle Tarn, Borrowdale, Cumberland, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1865.   click to enlarge PI0101.jpg Included on page 10 of the guide book, Ascents and Passes in the Lake District of England, by Herman Prior.  printed at bottom:-  "ANGLE TARN." item:-  JandMN : 235.3 Image © see bottom of page
	Click to enlarge BPF58.jpg  and Hanging Knotts. (taken 20.5.2008)
hearsay:-	Nancy Price says:-
	"A sinister, laughterless tarn, it is like a dead jelly fish, flat and squishy, or it might be a polluted spring from the Devil Kingdom. None but the damned could desire such water. It was soft and warm, and had no freshness in it. Horrid shapes might well wallow there with long black shining arms ready to drag any unwary wanderer to their depths."
	hmm.
	Price, Nancy:: Vagabonds' Way Baron 1925
hearsay:-	It's about 40 feet, 15m deep.

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