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Subject: Re: location of English lake]
Date: 23 Mar 2004 14:08:26 EST
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All references that I can find point to an area about 6 or 7 miles SE
(as the crow flies) of Carlisle.  Apparently it was near the villages of
Aiketgate and High Hesket.

This area can be found on sheet  #86 of the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000
Landranger series (lower left corner).

Some interesting anecdotes:


~"To reach Tarn Wadling from Carlisle, Arthur must have gone
southeastward into Inglewood Forest and along the Vale of Eden, climbing
as he went a perpendicular rise of somewhat more than two hundred meters
to Tarn Wadling. Britton and Brayley provide a description of the place:

...Tarn-wadling spreads its waters on a naked and barren common, about
one mile west from the river Eden, at Armathwaite, above which it rises
600 feet perpendicular. It covers about 100 acres, and is much
frequented by wild fowl: the carp it produces are extremely fine."



~Daniel and Samuel Lysons tell more in their gazetteer of 1816 about the
military potential of Tarn Wadling:

"Near Aiketgate is a small lake or tarn called Tarn Wadling, covering
about 100 acres of land, belonging to Mr. Milbourne. On a lofty eminence
near this tarn were, some time ago, the remains of a fortress, called
Castle Hewen, thus spoken of by Leland: "In the forest of Ynglewood,
about six miles from Carluel, appere ruines of a castle call'd Castel
Lewen." The neighbouring tenants pay a yearly rent to Mr. Milbourne as
lord of the manor, called Castle Hewen rent."


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