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Blea Tarn© Tim Watts / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Mountain hollows filled with water — the small high lakes of the uplands. 11 in the Albion Guide.
Set between Great and Little Langdale, its reeds and pines frame a celebrated view of the Langdale Pikes.
Cumbria
The Lake District's largest tarn, lying alone on the bleak moorland above Eskdale beneath Birker Fell.
Cupped beneath Dow Crag on the Old Man of Coniston, this dark tarn is a long-standing favourite of rock climbers.
Alfred Wainwright asked for his ashes to be scattered at this small tarn on the top of Haystacks.
Wordsworth likened this small tarn below Loughrigg Fell to Diana's mirror, with the Langdale Pikes framed beyond.
High above Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales, this rare upland lake on limestone gave Charles Kingsley The Water-Babies.
North Yorkshire
Between Striding Edge and Swirral Edge beneath Helvellyn, this is among the highest sizeable waters in England.
High beneath Great End near Sty Head, it is reputed to lie among the wettest spots in England.
Dammed below the cliff of Pavey Ark above Great Langdale, reached by the path beside Stickle Ghyll.
A much-loved beauty spot near Coniston, an artificial tarn among wooded knolls with the Coniston fells rising beyond.
Beside the hamlet of Watendlath above Borrowdale, this tarn is the fictional home of Hugh Walpole's Judith Paris.
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