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Bowscale Tarn


Bowscale Tarn is situated on the eastern of Bowscale Fell, and located just over a mile east of the small settlement of Bowscale in Cumbria. It is a corrie tarn - a lake in circular bowl eroded by a glacier. The tarn is about 17 metres deep and William Wordsworth wrote that it was the home of two immortal fish![1] Alfred Wainwright noted that Bowscale Tarn was a popular tourist attraction in Victorian times, with visitors brought by pony (the pony track from Bowscale still exists today as a bridleway).[2]

Glacial Erosion Mosedale (village) Bowscale William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
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Panorama of Bowscale Tarn
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Lonely Bowscale Tarn
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Tarn Crags and Bowscale Tarn
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Mosedale (village)
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Mosedale (village)
- Overview About Mosedale Map Street View Mosedale is a small village at the foot of Carrock Fell in Cumbria. It is located 4 miles off the A66 road between Keswick …
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Bowscale
- Overview Map Street View BOWSCALE, a township, in the parish of Greystock, union of Penrith, Leith ward, county of Cumberland, 10 miles (W. N. W.) from Penrith; containing 31 inhabitants. …
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Bowscale Fell
- "Bowscale Fell is a hill in the English Lake District. It rises above the village of Mungrisdale in the Northern Fells. Bowscale Fell stands at the extreme north east the …
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Bowscale Tarn - Tarn of the Immortal Fish
- "According to local boy Wordsworth there are two immortal fish in Bowscale Tarn, and one of them can speak! Of course he was a pretty good story teller, but who …
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