Dockey Tarn

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| alt = A small lake surrounded by reeds on the slope of a mountain covered in vegetation with rocky outcrops

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| location = Cumbria, England

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| elevation = {{convert|379.3|m}}

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Dockey Tarn is a small lake in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England. It is located at a height of {{cvt|379.3|m}}, on the west slope below the ridge from Nab Scar to Heron Pike, about {{cvt|700|m}} south-east of Alcock Tarn, and about {{cvt|2|km}} east of Grasmere.{{cite web |title=Dockey Tarn, South Lakeland |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/dockey-tarn-south-lakeland |website=OS GetOutside |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=19 September 2022 |language=en-gb}} It has been said to be one of the smallest tarns in the Lake District which is named on Ordnance Survey maps; it does not appear on their maps at 1:50,000 scale{{cite web |title=Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map centred on location of Dockey Tarn |url=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?X=335346&Y=507297&A=Y&Z=120 |website=Streetmap |access-date=19 September 2022 |language=EN}} but is marked and named on their 1:25,000 maps.{{cite web |title=Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map centred on Dockey Tarn |url=http://streetmap.co.uk/map?X=335346&Y=507297&A=Y&Z=115 |website=Streetmap |access-date=19 September 2022 |language=EN}}

A visitor in 2018 reported that the tarn had at that time dried up completely.{{cite web |title=#72: Dockey Tarn |url=https://swimmingthelakes.com/2018/05/18/72-dockey-tarn/ |website=SwimmingTheLakes |access-date=19 September 2022 |language=en |date=18 May 2018}}

The name of the tarn appeared in a 1749 document spelled "Dockrey Tarn", and is believed to derive from the local family surname Dockray.{{cite web |title=Dockey Tarn |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/5328768ab47fc40c6f0005c7-Dockey+Tarn |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |publisher=Survey of English Place-Names |access-date=19 September 2022}}

==References==

Category:Lakes of the Lake District

Category:Westmorland and Furness