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Innominate Tarn

Lake in Cumbria, England


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Lake in Cumbria, England

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nameInnominate Tarn
imageInnominate Tarn.jpg
pushpin_mapUnited Kingdom Lake District#United Kingdom Copeland
pushpin_map_captionLocation in the Lake District##Location in Copeland Borough
locationLake District, Cumbria
coords
typetarn
basin_countriesUnited Kingdom
elevation520 m

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Innominate Tarn is a small tarn in the north of the Lake District National Park in England. It is situated at 520 metres above sea level, near the summit of Haystacks. The word Innominate means "without a name".

It was formerly known as Loaf Tarn.

The tarn is the location where Alfred Wainwright's ashes were scattered. He had expressed this wish in Fellwanderer: The Story behind the Guide Books:

"Every day that passes is a day less. That day will come when there is nothing left but memories. And afterwards, a last long resting place by the side of Innominate Tarn, on Haystacks, where the water gently laps the gravelly shore and the heather blooms and Pillar and Gable keep unfailing watch. A quiet place, a lonely place. I shall go to it, for the last time, and be carried: someone who knew me in life will take me and empty me out of a little box and leave me there alone. And if you, dear reader, should get a bit of grit in your boot as you are crossing Haystacks in the years to come, please treat it with respect. It might be me."

References

References

  1. (1995). "The Tarns of Lakeland, Volume 1 West". Cicerone Press.
  2. (1966). "Fellwanderer:The Story behind the Guide Books". Westmorland Gazette.
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