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placename:- | Kentmere Tarn | |
parish |
Kentmere parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:- | Cumbria | |
lake | ||
coordinates:- |
NY45510291 | |
10Km square:- |
NY40 | |
1Km square | NY4502 | |
![]() Kentmere Tarn -- Kentmere -- Cumbria / -- 9.9.2009 | ||
![]() Kentmere Tarn -- Kentmere -- Cumbria / -- From the south. -- 17.20.2008 | ||
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OS County Series (Wmd 27
13)
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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. | ||
placename:- | Kentmere Tarn | |
lake | ||
date:- | 1890=1899 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
source:- |
Martineau 1855
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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 1855-71. | ||
Page 175:- | ||
... If familiar with the old description of the district, he will look for Kentmere Tarn, and wonder to see no trace of it. It is drained away; and fertile fields now occupy the place of the swamp, reeds and shallow water which he might have seen but a few years ago. While this tarn existed, the mills at Kendal were very irregularly supplied with water. ... | ||
date:- | 1855 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
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Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. | ||
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Kent Mere Tarn | ||
Outline with form lines. | ||
placename:- | Kent Mere Tarn | |
county:- | Westmoreland | |
date:- | 1839 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
descriptive text:- |
Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
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Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52. | ||
Page 159:- | ||
... | ||
Kentmere Tarn is in a narrow vale, about two miles in length. The Tarn is one mile long, and cannot be approached except at one point, owing to the swampiness of its margin. ... | ||
placename:- | Kenntmere Tarn | |
date:- | 1839 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards. | ||
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Kentmere Tarn, in the vale of Kentmere, bordered by morass, and Skeggles Water ... are neither of them possessed of any striking features. | ||
date:- | 1823 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1820s | |
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Otley 1818
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New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s. | ||
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lake | ||
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Wallis 1810
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Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, now Cumbria, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, London, 1810; published 1810-36. | ||
... The Ken rises from a lake called Kent Mere, near Ambleside, ... | ||
placename:- | Kent Mere | |
date:- | 1810 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1810s | |
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Cooke 1802
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Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published 1802-24. | ||
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Kentmere Tarn | ||
outline with form lines; lake or tarn | ||
placename:- | Kentmere Tarn | |
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1802 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1800s | |
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Cooke 1802
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Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published 1802-24. | ||
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outline with form lines; lake or tarn | ||
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1802 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1800s | |
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West 1784 map
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A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821. | ||
Kentmere tarn | ||
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placename:- | Kentmere Tarn | |
lake | ||
county:- | Westmorland | |
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Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
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Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770. | ||
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The Tarn | ||
outline with form lines; lake or tarn | ||
placename:- | Tarn, The | |
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1770 | |
period:- | 18th century, late; 1770s | |
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Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87. | ||
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outline with form lines | ||
date:- | 1760 | |
period:- | 18th century, late; 1760s | |
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Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
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Maps, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland? in The Agreeable Historian by Samuel Simpson, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746. | ||
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Outline with form lines. | ||
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1746 | |
period:- | 18th century, early; 1740s | |
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Morden 1695 (Wmd)
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Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695. | ||
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Outline with shore shading, tinted blue. | ||
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1695 | |
period:- | 17th century, late; 1690s | |
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Cooper 1808
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Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by G and W B Whittaker, 13 Ave Maria Lane, London, 1824. | ||
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outline, shaded; lake | ||
locality:- | Kendal Ward | |
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1808 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1800s | |
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Badeslade 1742
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A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, and descriptive text, Cumberland similarly, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742. | ||
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outline with form lines | ||
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1742 | |
period:- | 18th century, early | |
photographs | ||
![]() | Kentmere Tarn -- Kentmere -- Cumbria / -- South end. -- 17.20.2008 | |
hearsay |
There was a shallow lake, made by an ice dam, at the end of
the last ice age, south of Millriggs. It was drained 1840.
The deposits of diatomite, diatomaceous earth, were mined
for insulation products into the 20th century. The flooded
workings became the present Kentmere Tarn which is not
centred in quite the same place as the old glacial lake.
In 1955 and 1959 the Cape Asbestos Co, working for diatomite, found four dugout boats, dated to the 14th century. (Best one in the National Maritime Museum, other pieces in Kendal Museum). | |
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013 | ||