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===Tarns===
These come in all shapes and sizes as discussed on [[Tarns of the Lake District]]. Some are quite large, others
*[[Bleaberry Tarn]], an oval-shaped [[Tarns of the Lake District#Cirque tarns|cirque tarn]] with complex features and several basins. At an elevation of 497 metres, it is already a hefty climb to reach, but it looks particularly impressive from the summit of High Stile with its familiar, but not entirely distinct cirque shape, and dark blue waters.
*[[Innominate Tarn]], also known as Loaf Tarn, is one of a multitude of small bodies of water on the heights by Haystacks, the result of [[
*[[Blackbeck Tarn]] is pear-shaped and the largest of the tarns around the summit area of Haystacks.
There is a fourth unnamed tarn on the Haystacks summit, elongated, narrow and perched on the edge of the summit with unsurpassed views down the Buttermere Valley. There are many more small and indistinct pools and ponds that are not named on the Ordnance Survey maps. This is one Alfred Wainwright's favourite places in the Lake District, and as he wished, his ashes were scattered here, blown on the winds and becoming part of the very landscape he so loved.
===Waterfalls===
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*Victoria County History (1901). ''The Victoria History of the County of Cumberland''. Vol.1. London: Constable.
*Whaley, Diana (2006). ''A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names''. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society.
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