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Blea Tarn (Langdale)

Little Langdale
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Little Langdale viewed from Wrynose Pass
Little Langdale is located in Cumbria
Little Langdale
Little Langdale
Little Langdale shown within Cumbria
OS grid reference NY315033
Civil parish
  • Langdale
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district LA22
Dialling code 015394
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cumbria
54°25′16″N 3°03′22″W / 54.421°N 3.056°W / 54.421; -3.056Coordinates: 54°25′16″N 3°03′22″W / 54.421°N 3.056°W / 54.421; -3.056
Blea Tarn
Blea Tarn Lingmoor Fell.jpg
Blea Tarn with Rakerigg, Blake Rigg and Pike of Blisco from Lingmoor Fell
Location Lake District
Coordinates 54°25′49″N 3°5′28″W / 54.43028°N 3.09111°W / 54.43028; -3.09111
Type Tarn
Primary outflows Bleamoss Beck
Catchment area 1.16 km2 (0.45 sq mi)
Surface area 3.48 ha (8.6 acres)
Average depth 7 m (23 ft)
Max. depth 8 m (26 ft)
Surface elevation 230 m (750 ft) / < 190 m (620 ft) (OS map)
References
Little Langdale Tarn
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Location NY 308032 / NY 309 033 Lake District
Coordinates 54°25′11″N 3°3′58″W / 54.41972°N 3.06611°W / 54.41972; -3.06611
Type infilled glacial valley bottom
Primary inflows River Brathay & Bleamoss Beck, Greenburn Beck
Primary outflows River Brathay
Catchment area 12.0 km2 (4.6 sq mi)
Max. length 375 m (1,230 ft)
Max. width 275 m (902 ft)
Surface area 0.063 km2 (0.024 sq mi), 0.073 km2 (0.028 sq mi)
Average depth 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Max. depth 9.5 m (31 ft)
Water volume 2×10^6 m3 (1,600 acre·ft) (see note)
Residence time 2 days 3.3 days
Surface elevation 103 m (338 ft)

Little Langdale is a valley in the Lake District, England containing Little Langdale Tarn and a hamlet also called Little Langdale. A second tarn, Blea Tarn, is in a hanging valley between Little Langdale and the larger Great Langdale to the north. Little Langdale is flanked on the south and southwest by Wetherlam and Swirl How, and to the north and northwest by Lingmoor Fell and Pike of Blisco. The valley descends to join with Great Langdale above Elter Water.

Langdale was previously known as Langdene meaning 'far away wooded valley' and referring to its distance along the flint route from Whitley Bay.

Historically Little Langdale was at the intersection of packhorse routes leading to Ravenglass, Whitehaven, Keswick, Penrith & Carlisle, Ambleside, Hawkshead, and Coniston, Ulverston, Broughton-in-Furness and Barrow in Furness. Slater's Bridge which crosses the River Brathay in 3 spans supported by a large mid-stream boulder and stone causeways is a 16th-century, slate-built, former packhorse bridge on one of these routes. Today metalled roads from Little Langdale lead west over Wrynose Pass and Hardknott towards Eskdale, northwest by Blea Tarn to Great Langdale, northeast to Elterwater and east to the Skelwith Bridge - Coniston road.


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