Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Seathwaite Tarn
	parish	Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	SD253988
	10Km square:-	SD29
	1Km square	SD2598
		Seathwaite Tarn -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- 14.3.2007
	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.
		Seathwaite T.
		outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn
	placename:-	Seathwaite Tarn
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	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.
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		...
		... The road to Seathwaite Tarn is over a pass, little inferior in height to the Man [Coniston]. This tarn contains on its northern side a rocky island, and Fairfield may be seen over its
		Page 13:-
		surface, between side screens formed of rocky precipices. ...
	placename:-	Seathwaite 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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		Seathwaite Tarn empties itself into the river Duddon; it is separated from Levers Water, only by a narrow mountain ridge.
	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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