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Subject: Re: location of English lake]
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:07:18 -0800
From: Laura E Campbell <[log in to unmask]>


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This website has an ordinance map (1810) and smaller maps
that show the town of High Hesket and the location of Tarn
Wadling to the east of it.  (See the links at the bottom).
There is also an email address.  Perhaps better access to
the ordinance map would be available.

http://markhousby.tripod.com/


Laura Campbell


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:01:43 -0500
  "Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Subject: location of English lake
>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:12:31 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
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>Hello, colleagues.
>
>A historian and a literary scholar here are trying to
>determine the former
>location of a lake in northern England, in the region of
>Cumbria, near
>Carlisle.  The lake was known as Tarn Wadling (with some
>variations in
>spelling).  It features in a medieval Arthurian romance,
>which is the
>object of the research.  The lake was drained at some
>point in the past
>100 years or so, and therefore does not appear on current
>mapping, such as
>the Landranger map series which I have in my collections.
>The lake, when
>it existed, appears to have been at about 100 acres in
>area.
>
>Any information will be of great assistance in their
>research.  Please
>feel free to correspond directly with me.  I will share
>information with
>the list.
>
>Ken
>___________________________
>Ken Grabach
>                            <[log in to unmask]>
>Maps Librarian                           Phone:
>513-529-1726
>Miami University Libraries
>Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA

Laura Campbell
Reference Assistant
Map Room, Science & Engineering Library
1156 High St.
University of California
Santa Cruz,CA 95064
831-459-4117
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