Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Greendale Tarn
	parish	Nether Wasdale parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	NY147074
	10Km square:-	NY10
	1Km square	NY1407
		Greendale Tarn -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 30.6.2008
	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.
		Greendale Tarn
		outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn
	placename:-	Greendale Tarn
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) -- perhaps relevant
		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.
		goto source.
		Page 39:-
		There are some other small tarns, of little consequence in themselves, and seldom seen by strangers; therefore they scarcely require to be noticed. Such are ... and the two tarns above Bowderdale in the Wasdale mountains.
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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