Tarns of Cumbria

Tarn means a small mountain lake. They are usually formed in valleys that were excavated by glaciers. Sometimes natural dams are formed below a tarn by moraines (glacial debris). Tarns in Cumbria range from minute to large enough to pass for a lake. There are hundreds of tarns scattered in Cumbria’s uplands.

Alcock Tarn	Angle Tarn
Barngates Tarn	Beacon Tarn
Black Star Tarn	Blackbeck Tarn
Blea Tarn	Bleaberry Tarn
Blelham Tarn	Blind Tarn
Bowfell Tarn	Bowscale Tarn
Brock Crags Summit Tarn	Burnmoor Tarn
Codale Tarn	Dale Head Tarn
Devoke Water	Dock Tarn
Easdale Tarn	Ecclerigg Tarn
Elterwater Tarn	Floutern Tarn
Freshwater Biological Association Reservoir Tarn	Goats Water Tarn
Grisedale Tarn	Gurnal Dubs Tarn
Hard Tarn	Harrop Tarn
Haystacks Summit Tarn	High Arnside Tarn
High Dam Tarn (Above Finsthwaite)	High Nook Tarn
Holehouse Tarn	Homehead Farm Tarn
Huntingstile Crag Tarn	Innominate Tarn
Kelly Hall Tarn	Kirkfell Tarn
Knipe Tarn	Lags Woods Tarn
Lambfoot Dub Tarn	Lank Rigg Tarn
Launch Tarn	Leaves Tarn
Lily Tarn	Lincombe Tarn
Lingmoor Tarn	Little Langdale Tarn
Long Moss Tarn (Torver Common)	Loughrigg Tarn
Low Birker Tarn	Malham Tarn
Middleboot Knotts Tarn	Moss Eccles Tarn
Muncaster Tarn	Pavey Ark Tarn
Potter Tarn	Red Screes Tarn
Red Tarn	Rigg Tarn
Sand Tarn	School Knott Tarn
Seagull Tarn	Seathwaite Tarn
Silver Howe Tarn	Skeggles Water Tarn
Small Water Tarn	Snipeshow Tarn
Sprinkling Tarn	Stickle Tarn
Styhead Tarn	Talkin Tarn
Tarn Hows	Tarnhouse Tarn
Tewitt Tarn	Three Dubs Tarn
Wansfell Tarn	Watendlath Tarn
Wise Een Tarn	Yew Tree Tarn

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