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===Tarns=== |
===Tarns=== |
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These come in all shapes and sizes as discussed on [[Tarns of the Lake District]]. Some are quite large, others |
These come in all shapes and sizes as discussed on [[Tarns of the Lake District]]. Some are quite large, others nothing more than mere pools, glistening in tranquil ripples on a gentle breeze. On the southern fells of Buttermere there are three main tarns: |
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*[[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. |
*[[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. |
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*[[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 [[Lakes of the Lake District#Areally scoured tarns|areal scouring]] leaving numerous depressions, some of them no more than a metre deep. |
*[[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 [[Lakes of the Lake District#Areally scoured tarns|areal scouring]] leaving numerous depressions, some of them no more than a metre deep. |
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*[[Blackbeck Tarn]] is pear-shaped and the largest of the tarns around the summit area of Haystacks. |
*[[Blackbeck Tarn]] is pear-shaped and the largest of the tarns around the summit area of Haystacks. |
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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. |
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. |
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===Waterfalls=== |
===Waterfalls=== |
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