Bleaberry Tarn is a small natural mountain
tarn near
Buttermere
Buttermere is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. The adjacent village of Buttermere takes its name from the lake. Historically in Cumberland, the lake is now within the county of Cumbria. Owned by the National Trust, it forms ...
in the English
Lake District. Located at NY165154 (
OS Landranger 89), it lies in a
corrie below the
Lakeland fells of
Red Pike and
High Stile
High Stile is a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in North West England. It is the eleventh-highest English Marilyn, standing 807 metres (2,648 ft) high, and has a relative height of 362 metres (1,187 ft).
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, backed by Chapel Crags on the ridge between them. The footpath ascending Red Pike from Buttermere skirts its north side.
A. Wainwright
Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume '' Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'', publis ...
describes the tarn as "secluded" and suggests it formed in a volcanic crater.
A. Wainwright
Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume '' Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'', publis ...
. "Red Pike (Buttermere)" in ''The Western Fells'': ''A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
''A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'' is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in northwest England. Written over a period of 13 years from 1952, they ...
(Vol. 7)'' (Frances Lincoln; 2009) ()
The stream Sour Milk Gill descends from the tarn to Buttermere, and is followed by one of the popular footpaths ascending Red Pike.
In the 19th century, it was sometimes additionally known as "Burtness Tarn" or "Blebba Tarn".
[ Samuel Leigh. ''Leigh's Guide to the Lakes and Mountains of Cumberland, Westmorland, And, Lancashire'', p. 90 (Leigh & Son; 1835)]
References
Further reading
* John Nuttall, Anne Nuttall. "Bleaberry Tarn", pp. 28–32, in ''The Tarns of Lakeland Vol 1: West'' (Cicerone Press; 1995)
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External links
Tarns of the Fells: Bleaberry Tarn
Lakes of the Lake District
Buttermere, Cumbria (village)
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