Innominate camouflage
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| Geographical location | Cumbria , England | |
| Tributaries | none | |
| Drain | none | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 54 ° 30 '20 " N , 3 ° 14' 27" W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 520 m ASL | |
| length | 78 m | |
| width | 67 m | |
| Maximum depth | 2 m | |
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particularities |
Alfred Wainwright's final resting place |
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Innominate Tarn is a small mountain lake ( Tarn) in the Lake District National Park in Northern England . It is located southeast of the summit of the Haystacks at an altitude of 520 meters. The lake has no recognizable inflow and outflow.
The name means nameless lake , a self-contradicting nickname . In earlier times, the name Loaf Tarn was in use, as the small peat islands in the lake are reminiscent of loaves of bread (English "loafs").
Tourist importance
The lake is actually remote, small and insignificant. But apart from its picturesque location and mountain scenery that is well worth seeing, it gained special fame among visitors and hikers ( Fellwalker ) of the Lake District because the ashes of the author Alfred Wainwright were scattered on its banks . In Volume 7, The Western Fells of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , Wainwright had expressed this wish, as well as in his Memoirs of a Fellwalker :
"All I ask for, at the end, is a long resting place by the side of Innominate Tarn, on Haystacks."
"In the end, all I want is a resting place on the banks of the Innominate Tarn on Haystacks."
renaming
After Wainwright's death, the Allerdale Borough Council proposed that Innominate Tarn be renamed Wainwright Tarn in honor of Wainwright's work. Wainwright loved maps and would have found it amusing to have his name immortalized on a map. Locations in the Lake District have previously been renamed after people, e. B. Birkett Fell , named after a judge who ruled against the Manchester Waterworks in a lawsuit over the preservation of the Ullswater , or Mount Robinson after a local landowner who owned the mountain.
Votes against said that one cannot simply rename places, mountains, lakes or the like in the Lake District. Wainwright himself would not have agreed, as he was always modest and reserved. Just to name the "Robinson" he wrote: "It could have been worse - It might have been a Smith or Jones or a Wainwright". ("It could have been worse and become a Smith or Jones or Wainwright").
Finally, the state map service Ordnance Survey agreed to use the new name on official maps in the future. But since it turned out that the lake is not in the area of the applicant Borough Allerdale, but falls under the jurisdiction of Copeland , the initiative has been suspended.
See also
Remarks
- ↑ Innominate Tarn on Lakes, Meres, Tarns and Waters
- ↑ Chapter Haystacks , page 10
- ^ A Wainwright: Memoirs of a Fellwanderer (Frances Lincoln, London), 1966 - ISBN 0-7112-2239-8
- ↑ Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Volume 6, Robinson, page 2
