Grisedale Tarn

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| name = Grisedale Tarn

| image = St Sunday crag and Grisedale tarn.jpg

| caption = Lake and St Sunday Crag

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| location = Lake District, Cumbria

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| type = Tarn

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| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Lake District#United Kingdom Eden

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the Lake District National Park##Location in Eden, Cumbria

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Grisedale Tarn is a tarn in the Lake District of England between Fairfield and Dollywagon 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 {{convert|538|m|ft}} in altitude and has a maximum depth of around {{convert|33|m|ft}}. It holds brown trout, perch and eels.Blair, Don: Exploring Lakeland Tarns: Lakeland Manor Press (2003): {{ISBN|0-9543904-1-5}} 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 = https://archive.org/details/cherwellwaterli00fabegoog

| quote = grisedale tarn.

| accessdate = 2007-09-26

| date = 1840

| publisher = Gilbert and Rivington

| location = London

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/cherwellwaterli00fabegoog/page/n335 314]–317

| chapter = XCI - Grisedale Tarn

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