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Little Langdale Tarn is a natural tarn within a marshy area of the valley. The area around the tarn is managed by the National Trust and has no public access. It is typical Southern Cumbrian meso-oligotrophic tarn, [35] whilst not at a particularly high altitude itself it has a mean catchment altitude of 520 metres (1,710 ft) [34]
The Tarn Hows area originally contained three much smaller tarns, Low Tarn, Middle Tarn and High Tarn. Wordsworth's Guide Through the District of the Lakes (1835 edition) recommends walkers to come this way but passes the tarns without mention. Until 1862 much of the Tarn Hows area was part of the open common grazing of Hawkshead parish.
Verdi Lake in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn ("a small mountain lake without tributaries") meaning pond. In parts of Northern England – predominantly Cumberland and Westmorland (where there are 197), [2] but also areas of North Lancashire and North Yorkshire – 'tarn' is widely used as the name for small lakes or ponds, regardless of their ...
Blea Tarn is a lake in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the English Lake District, located about half a mile north of Beckfoot.Located at an elevation of 217 m (712 ft), the lake has an area of 3.3 hectares (8.2 acres) and measures 277 m × 150 m (909 ft × 492 ft), with a maximum depth of 11 m (36 ft).
Tarn Crag is a fell in the Central Fells of the English Lake District. Strictly the name refers only to the rock face looking down upon Easedale Tarn , but Alfred Wainwright applied it to the entire ridge lying between the Easedale and Far Easedale valleys in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
Tarn (French pronunciation: or ; Occitan pronunciation:) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. Named after the river Tarn , it had a population of 389,844 as of 2019. [ 4 ] Its prefecture and largest city is Albi ; it has a single subprefecture , Castres .
Burnmoor Tarn, on Eskdale Fell in Cumbria, England, is the largest entirely natural tarns in the Lake District. Its waters flow into Whillan Beck at the tarn's north-eastern corner, which immediately turns south and flows into Eskdale , joining the Esk at Beckfoot. [ 1 ]
These tarns are usually surrounded by peat, so most have relatively acidic water in comparison to the alkaline nature of water which runs over Limestone common in the area. [ 4 ] Man-made reservoirs and dams, such as at Moss Dam in Swaledale , are not included, as the list focuses only on natural lakes and tarns. [ 5 ]