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placename:- Scoat Tarn
parish Nether Wasdale parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
lake
coordinates:- NY159103
10Km square:- NY11
1Km square NY1510
photograph

Scoat Tarn -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 3.6.2011
photograph

Scoat Tarn -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 13.7.2010
old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 74 6)

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:- Scoat Tarn
lake
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s
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.
thumbnail GAR2NY11, button to large image
outline with shore form lines, lake or 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.
image OT01P039, button   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
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.
image OT02NY11, button   goto source.
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lake
photographs
tiny photograph, button to large Scoat Tarn -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- and mist coming down ... -- 30.6.2008
tiny photograph, button to large Scoat Tarn -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 3.6.2011
tiny photograph, button to large Scoat Tarn -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 13.7.2010
Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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