Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Beacon Tarn
	locality:-	Blawith Fells
	parish	Blawith and Subberthwaite parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	SD274900
	10Km square:-	SD29
	1Km square	SD2790
		Beacon Tarn -- Blawith Fells -- Blawith and Subberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 19.4.2011
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Beacon Tarn
		outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn
	placename:-	Beacon Tarn
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	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.
		Outline with form lines.
	county:-	Lancashire
	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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		Page 36:-
		... Beacon Tarn is a small one, near the foot of the lake [Coniston Water].
	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
	hearsay	Referred to as Trout Tarn by Arthur Ransome.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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