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Burnmoor Tarn
Two walkers looking over the lake with mountains in the background
Overlooking Burnmoor Tarn with Burnmoor Lodge in the foreground.
Burnmoor Tarn is located in the Lake District
Burnmoor Tarn
Burnmoor Tarn
Location in the Lake District
Burnmoor Tarn is located in the former Borough of Copeland
Burnmoor Tarn
Burnmoor Tarn
Location in Copeland Borough
LocationLake District
Coordinates54°25′41″N 3°15′34″W / 54.42814°N 3.25953°W / 54.42814; -3.25953
Primary outflowsWhillan Beck
Catchment area6.02 km2 (2.32 sq mi)
Surface area23.9 ha (59 acres)
Max. depth13 m (43 ft)
Surface elevation253 m (830 ft)

Burnmoor Tarn, on Eskdale Fell in Cumbria, England, is the largest entirely natural tarns in the Lake District. Its waters flow into Whillan Beck at the tarn's north-eastern corner, which immediately turns south and flows into Eskdale, joining the Esk at Beckfoot.[1] Burnmoor Lodge, a former fishing lodge, stands by the southern shore and a mediaeval corpse road runs past the eastern shore where it fords the beck.[2][3] Eskdale Moor or Boat How lies to the south of the tarn.

The tarn is one of the sites in DEFRA's UK Upland Waters Monitoring Network.[2] It occupies 23.9 hectares (59 acres) and lies at an altitude of 253 metres (830 ft) in a moraine hollow on the uplands between Wastwater and Eskdale. The lake has two distinct basins close to the south-eastern shore and a maximum depth of 13 metres (43 ft). There are four main inflow streams to the north and north-west. The outflow at the eastern end joins the Hardrigg Beck which drains the slopes of Scafell and, in times of especially high flow, is partly diverted into the lake across a braided delta.[2]

  1. ^ "Burnmoor Tarn". www.knowledge.me.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "UK UWMN Sites". uwmn.defra.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  3. ^ "View: Cumberland LXXIX.NE (includes: Eskdale.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2015.

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