| A classic glacial relic, the tarn lies in a trough that was cut by ice moving across from Great to Little Langdale. |
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| You need an all-terrain vehicle to use it, and having used it after wet weather, to gain access to the tarn you need all-weather footwear. |
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| Although the site is not a war grave, the wreckage was returned to the tarn after identification. |
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| A bridge crosses the point where a small beck that catches water from Iron Keld and Black Crag brings the main supply of water to the tarn. |
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| The path continues back to the southern end of the tarn where there is again a challenging gradient before you leave the gravel track and meet an expanse of sloping grass. |
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| This walk follows a circular route around an irregularly shaped tarn, through broadleaf woodland and shady conifers and across grassy knolls nibbled by sheep. |
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| Silting, aggravated by autumn leaf fall, had deoxygenated the water but the conservation-keen couple were reluctant to restore the tarn until they knew more about its history. |
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| From the early 10th cent. there was considerable Norse settlement, from Ireland and the Isle of Man, leaving evidence in words like fell, ghyll, tarn, and how. |
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| The trail around the tarn is a favourite for families, with plenty of play opportunities in water and woodland, and lots of optional tracks branching off from the main path. |
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| The pub served deep-fried fish in the net they'd pulled it out the tarn with, and I ate it greedily in Blencathra's thrall. |
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| After passing the Dollar Lakes, I hear the gurgle of a stream and then see Lamoille Lake, a shallow mountain tarn in a glacial bowl, with steep talus slopes cradling it. |
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| Soon after you leave the shelter of the trees you come to a mountain tarn. |
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| The original buildings at Tarn House date back to 1685 when the property, with its tarn, was an important centre for stabling, watering and trading in packhorses. |
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| The highest is just below the top, generally referred to as the summit tarn but officially unnamed. |
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| The only tarn in the valley is Brothers Water, one of the first places in the Lakes to be acquired by the National Trust. |
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| Completing the group above Patterdale are Angletarn Pikes with its beautiful indented tarn and Place Fell. |
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| According to Heaton Cooper, the tarn is held in the moraines left by two glaciers moving down each valley. |
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| This smaller tarn has also been raised by damming, but in this case the original user was the Coniston Copper Mines. |
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| These gorges shelter some Mediterrean birds rarely found in the Tarn and The tarn and the Garonne, such as the warbler, the passerinette, the pipit rousseline, the shrike with its russet-red head and the small duke owl. |
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| A shimmering tarn or dingly dell is not her cup of tea at all, not when there's a house or church or even a factory to paint, and her distinctively bold style is rapidly acquiring a wide following. |
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| Elements like fell, thwaite and tarn, which are particularly common in Cumbria, are all Norse. |
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| Stickle Tarn is wholly within the territory of the Ark, a corrie tarn which has been dammed to create additional capacity. |
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| A second tarn, Blea Tarn, is in a hanging valley between Little Langdale and the larger Great Langdale to the north. |
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| The tarn is forested on its western shore with rhododendrons also found there, the other shores being grassland. |
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| The area around the tarn is managed by the National Trust and has no public access. |
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| The tarn shore supports a population of great crested grebe and the dark green fritillary butterfly. |
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| The bowl of Dove Crags is one of the largest glacial combs or cirques in the Lake District, yet has no tarn, but dry hollows noted as curious by. |
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| The lack of a retaining moraine means that this hollow has no tarn, Comb Beck running uninterrupted to the Lake. |
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| There is a small tarn in the depression, and sometimes a second after heavy rain. |
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| From Greendale the gill can be followed almost to the tarn, before branching off up the grassy slopes of Seatallan. |
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| In past years the tarn has not always thawed completely in summer. |
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| The tarn at Malham has been dammed and then allowed to flood. |
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| Between this cairn and the top, in a shallow valley, lies a small tarn. |
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| Following the decline of mining in the late 19th century a water treatment plant was eventually built and the tarn now supplies drinking water for Coniston village. |
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| This fine corrie tarn has been dammed in the past to provide water for the quarries, but all of its water now issues via a fine cascade of falls into the Coppermines Valley. |
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| The tarn is prevented from following what would appear the natural line of drainage into Miterdale by moraines, and empties southward, reaching the Esk at Beckfoot. |
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| Feeding the lake from either side of Mardale Ill Bell are the corrie tarns of Small Water and Blea Water, the latter being the deepest tarn in Lakeland. |
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| Brown trout and schelly, a species of whitefish, are found in the tarn. |
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| It is unclear whether there ever was a natural tarn in Brown Cove. |
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| That dam has now gone and the tarn has returned to its natural size. |
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| On this side are high crags, wild combes and a small tarn, Bleaberry Tarn. |
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| Alone to the extreme west across the tarn of Over Water stands Binsey. |
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| Little Langdale Tarn is a natural tarn within a marshy area of the valley. |
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