Blea Tarn (Langdale)
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| Geographical location | England , Cumbria | |
| Tributaries | unnamed | |
| Drain | Bleamoss Beck | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 25 '50 " N , 3 ° 5' 29" W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 183 m ASL | |
| length | 279 m | |
| width | 170 m | |
| Maximum depth | 7 m | |
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particularities |
Site of Special Scientific Interest |
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The Blea Tarn is a lake in the Lake District , Cumbria , England . The Blea Tarn is on a pass that connects the Great Langdale and Little Langdale valleys .
The lake has an unnamed tributary in the north. In the south of the lake the Bleamoss Beck leaves it , which flows into the River Brathay .
The lake has been specially protected since 1989 as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within the Lake District National Park. Its sediments are of particular value for radiocarbon dating the landscape.
To the northeast of the lake is the Blea Tarn House (also known as Blea Tarn Farmhouse ) a Grade II protected monument. ( 54 ° 26 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 3 ° 5 ′ 17.1 ″ W ) The house is believed to be described by Lake Poet William Wordsworth in The Solitary part of his poem The Excursion .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blea Tarn at Natural England
- ↑ Blea Tarn House ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at English Heritage
- ↑ see William Wordsworth, The Excursion: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row. [London], 1814, p. 67 here online
- ↑ Blea Tarn House, Little Langdale at geograph.org.uk
