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Whitemoss Common Tarn

I must have walked past this tarn many a dozen times over the years, and on most of these occasions there was hardly enough open water to provide swimming space for a family of ducks. The size of the tarn has never been in question, but as long as I've known this spot, it has been overgrown with Rhododendrons and chocked with reeds and grasses.

This must be a far cry from the days when William Wordsworth would walk from Rydal Mount to skate on the tarn, which according to the National Trust has the name of Skaters Tarn.

Thankfully when I came here in spring 2009, the National Trust were in the process of clearing the weed from the tarn to open up the area of clear water.
 
 

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Find a walk which includes this place:
Date: ( I did the walk ) Walk: Distance: Ascent:
26th June 2010 Silver How and Loughrigg Fell 10.4 mile 3050 ft
Route:        A591 - Grasmere - Allan Bank - Wray Gill - Silver How - Megs Gill - Chapel Stile - Walthwaite - High Close - Loughrigg Terrace - Loughrigg Fell - Rydal Caves - Rydal Water - Rydal - Rydal Mount - Coffin route - How Top - Grasmere - A591
 
 
17th January 2010 Silver How and the longer way back to Grasmere 7.4 mile 1720 ft
Route:        Grasmere - Allan Bank - Wray Gill - Silver How - Spedding Crag - Dow Bank - High Close - Loughrigg Terrace - Rydal Water - Rydal - Coffin Route - How Top - Grasmere
 
 
6th March 2009 A circuit of Grasmere and Rydal Water 6.2 mile 700 ft
Route:        Grasmere - Town End - Coffin Route to Rydal - Rydal Water - Grasmere - Road to Grasmere
 
 
24th November 2007 A circuit of Grasmere and Rydal Water 4.5 mile 11.50 ft
Route:        Grasmere - Grasmere Lake - Loughrigg Terrace (end of) - Rydal Caves - Rydal Water - Rydal - Corpse Road - Grasmere
 
 
28th August 2006 The ridge above Grasmere - Alcock Tarn to Nab Scar. 6.3 mile 2159 ft
Route:        A591 (The Swan) - Alcock Tarn - Heron Pike - Nab Scar - Rydal - Town End - A591 (The Swan)
 
 
14th January 2006 Rydal to Fairfield and back via Stone Arthur and an old corpse road. 9.5 mile 3514 ft
Route:        Rydal - Nab Scar - Heron Pike - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Great Rigg - Stone Arthur - A591 - White Moss Common - Rydal
 
 

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