- Grisedale Tarn
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lake_name = Grisedale Tarn
image_lake = St sunday crag and grizedale tarn.jpg
caption_lake = Lake andSt Sunday Crag
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location =Lake District ,Cumbria
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type = Tarn
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cities = Grisedale Tarn is a tarn in theLake District between Fairfield andDollywagon Pike .It is the legendary resting place of the crown of the kingdom of Cumbria, after the crown was conveyed there in 945 by soldiers of the last king,
Dunmail , after he was slain in battle with the combined forces of the English and Scottish kings.Grisedale Tarn is around 1,770 ft in altitude and has a depth of around 110 ft. It holds brown trout, perch and eels. Blair, Don: "Exploring Lakeland Tarns": Lakeland Manor Press (2003): ISBN 0-9543-9041-5 ] The outflow is to Ullswater to the north east, picking up all of the rainfall from the eastern face of
Dollywagon Pike .The Tarn is the subject of a poem by the Rev. Frederick William Faber printed in 1840.cite book
last = Faber
first = Rev. Frederick William
title = The Cherwell Water-Lily and Other Poems
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=C9I0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA315&lpg=PA315&dq=grisedale+tarn&source=web&ots=FXhbGK41H9&sig=TLphum2gAg0NhBEm6LKsGrEJlYQ#PPA314,M1
accessdate = 2007-09-26
date = 1840
publisher = Gilbert and Rivington
location = London
language = English
pages = 314-317
chapter = XCI - Grisedale Tarn ]ee also
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Grizedale
*Grizedale Forest References
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