Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Kentmere Tarn
	parish	Kentmere parish, once in Westmorland
	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
	old map:-	OS County Series (Wmd 27 13)
		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
		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.
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		... 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
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		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)
		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)
		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
	source:-	Otley 1818
		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
	descriptive text:-	Wallis 1810
		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
	old map:-	Cooke 1802
		Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published 1802-24.
		Kentmere Tarn
		outline with form lines; lake or tarn
	placename:-	Kentmere Tarn
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	old map:-	Cooke 1802
		Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published 1802-24.
		outline with form lines; lake or tarn
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		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
	old map:-	Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
		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.
		The Tarn
		outline with form lines; lake or tarn
	placename:-	Tarn, The
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1770
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		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.
		outline with form lines
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
		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
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Wmd)
		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
	old map:-	Cooper 1808
		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.
		outline, shaded; lake
	locality:-	Kendal Ward
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1808
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	old map:-	Badeslade 1742
		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.
		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).
		Kent, River
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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