Loughrigg Tarn
| Loughrigg Tarn | ||
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| Loughrigg Tarn from Loughrigg Fell | ||
| Geographical location | Lake District , Cumbria , England | |
| Tributaries | three unnamed | |
| Drain | none | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 25 '50 " N , 3 ° 0' 42" W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 97 m ASL | |
| length | 371 m | |
| width | 277 m | |
| Maximum depth | 12 m | |
The Loughrigg Tarn is a lake in the Lake District , Cumbria , England . The lake is east of Elter Water and south of Loughrigg Fell .
The lake has only very small tributaries and no outflow.
The lake belonged for a time to Baron George Howland Beaumont . The Lake Poets William Wordsworth bought with the money of subsequent resale of the lake yew , which in the cemetery of Grasmere were planted to this after the establishment to embellish an iron fence. Wordsworth has the lake, which is roughly circular, in his epistle To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Beard. From the South-West Coast of Cumberland compared to Lake Nemi in Italy and described it as the mirror of Diana , the goddess of that lake.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Wordsworth's Notes on the Epistle To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From the South-West Coast of Cumberland (1811)
- ^ William Wordsworth, Epistle To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. From the South-West Coast of Cumberland (1811) lines 164-167