Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Keppelcove Tarn
	locality:-	Keppel Cove
	parish	Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
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	coordinates:-	NY346165
	10Km square:-	NY31
	1Km square	NY3416
		Keppelcove Tarn -- Keppel Cove -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011 -- Notice the gap in the terminal morain, and a dam below.
		Keppelcove Tarn -- Keppel Cove -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009 -- Looking down into Brown Cove; the dark green patch in the distance is where Keppel Cove Tarn once was.
	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.
		Keppel Cove Tarn
		outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn
	placename:-	Keppel Cove Tarn
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	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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		... Keppel Cove Tarn is posited in a singular manner, not in the bottom of the glen, but, in a kind of recess formed on one side; it is separated from Red Tarn by a narrow mountain ridge, called Swirrel Edge, which branches off from Helvellyn and is terminated by a peak called Catsty Cam, modernized into Catchedecam; below which the two streams unite to form the brook of Glenridding. All these tarns afford good diversion for the angler; Keppel Cove produces a bright well shapen trout ...
	placename:-	Keppel Cove Tarn
	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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	old print:-	Jenkinson 1875
		Guide book, A Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 4th edition 1875.
		Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Helvellyn, Westmorland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
		... Keppelcove Tarn ...
	placename:-	Keppelcove Tarn
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late
	hearsay	This was a typical combe tarn held in by a terminal moraine. Water was drawn off by a lead mining company through a bore in the moraine. 30 October 1927, after a day of heavy rain, the moraine gave way and the tarn swept down the valley. Bridges, trees and animals were carried into Ullswater. The roof of a hay barn above Glenridding Bridge was found lying on its hay 20 feet down the field, the walls gone. People found their beds floating up to their ceilings, and had to break out through windows - but no one was drowned.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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