List of lakes and tarns in North Yorkshire

{{Short description|List of lakes and tarns in North Yorkshire, England}}

File:Summer Lodge Tarn - geograph.org.uk - 2766550.jpg

This is a list of lakes and tarns in North Yorkshire, England. Unlike the nearby Lake District, North Yorkshire does not have many natural lakes due to the porosity of the limestone underneath the surface.{{cite web |title=Lakes and tarns |url=https://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/wildlife/habitats/freshwater/lakes-and-tarns/ |website=Yorkshire Dales National Park |access-date=29 May 2021}}{{cite web |title=Freshwater |url=https://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/wildlife/habitats/freshwater/ |website=Yorkshire Dales National Park |access-date=29 May 2021}} The JNCC Special Area of Conservation status for the Craven Limestone Complex lists running and standing Water at only 1%.{{cite web |title=Craven Limestone Complex - Special Areas of Conservation |url=https://sac.jncc.gov.uk/site/UK0014776 |website=sac.jncc.gov.uk |access-date=29 May 2021}} Upland tarns are common where the underlying stone allows the water to collect. These tarns are usually surrounded by peat, so most have relatively acidic water in comparison to the alkaline nature of water which runs over Limestone common in the area.{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=Oliver |last2=Goldie |first2=Helen |last3=Hodgson |first3=David |last4=Marker |first4=Margaret |last5=Pentecost |first5=Allan |last6=Proctor |first6=Michael |last7=Richardson |first7=Douglas |title=The ecology of Cowside Beck : a tributary of the river Skirfare in the Malham area of Yorkshire |date=2006 |publisher=FSC |location=Settle |isbn=1851532188|page=32 }}

Man-made reservoirs and dams, such as at Moss Dam in Swaledale, are not included, as the list focuses only on natural lakes and tarns.{{NHLE|desc=Moss Dam|num=1015856|grade=|access-date=29 May 2021}} The list only covers those within Yorkshire, and sites such as Sunbiggin Tarn, whilst in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, are not included, as that body of water is in the county of Cumbria. Some tarns or lakes may no longer exist; historical documents refer to Giggleswick and Wigglesworth as having tarns - however, these have either dried up or have been drained.{{sfn|Speight|1892|pp=70, 376}}

List

class="wikitable"

|+List of lakes and tarns in North Yorkshire

!Name

!Location

!Coordinates

!Height AMSL

!Volume

!Notes

!Ref

Birkdale Tarn

|Keld

|{{coords|54.411

2.229}}

|{{convert|487|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|336,000|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Birkdale Tarn Water Body ID 29250 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29250 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=29 May 2021}}{{sfn|Gribble|1962|p=65}}

Birks Tarn

|Birks Fell

|{{coords|54.179

2.120}}

|{{convert|597|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|83,828|m3|order=flip}}

|In the 1890s, Birks Tarn was described as being "two sheets of water", but would become one big body of water in heavy rains.

|{{cite web |title=BIRKS TARN, CRAVEN (BD23 5JD) |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/birks-tarn-craven |website=getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ |access-date=2 June 2021}}{{cite web |title=Birks Tarn Water Body ID 29665 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29665 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Cotter End Tarn

|Cotterdale

|{{coords|54.338

2.280}}

|{{convert|517|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Cotter End Tarn Water Body ID 29396 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29396 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=29 May 2021}}

Cray Tarn

|Oughtershaw

|{{coord|54.226

2.121}}

|{{convert|598|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Cray Tarn Water Body ID 29576 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29576 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=4 June 2021}}

Eshton Tarn

|Bell Busk

|{{coords|54.0145

2.127}}

|{{convert|144|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|43,015|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Eshton Tarn Water Body ID 30020 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=30020 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=4 June 2021}}

Fleet Moss Tarn

|Fleet Moss

|{{coords|54.247

2.194}}

|{{convert|578|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Fleet Moss Tarn Water Body ID 29540 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29540 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=29 May 2021}}

Fountains Fell Tarn

|Fountains Fell

|{{coords|54.137

2.202}}

|{{convert|645|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|86,000|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite journal|last1=Woof|first1=C|last2=Jackson|first2=E|title=Some aspects of the water chemistry in the area around Malham Tarn, North Yorkshire|date=1988|issue=1|volume=7|journal=Fields Studies Journal|location=Shrewsbury|publisher=FSC|issn=0428-304X|page=161}}

Gallaber Pond (Flash)

|Hellifield

|{{coords|54.011

2.238}}

|{{convert|150|m|order=flip}}

|The flash lake is sandwiched between the A65 road and the railway line north of {{rws|Hellifield}} railway station. It does not appear on mapping from the early 1900s and is listed as a flash lake.

|{{cite news |last1=Mason |first1=Viv |title=Dismay as Hellifield flashes legal report favours developer |url=https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/18745038.dismay-hellifield-flashes-legal-report-favours-developer/ |access-date=14 December 2021 |work=Craven Herald |date=25 September 2020}}

Gormire Lake

|Sutton Bank

|{{coords|54.242

1.229}}

|{{convert|155|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|155,000|m3|order=flip}}

|Gormire has no major inflow, or outflow of water, and is thought to be fed by natural springs.

|{{cite web |title=Gormire Lake |url=https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/WaterBody/GB30429545 |website=environment.data.gov.uk |access-date=7 June 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Newton |first1=Grace |title=Gormire Lake: The Yorkshire lake shrouded in myths and mystery |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/gormire-lake-yorkshire-lake-shrouded-myths-and-mystery-1752554 |access-date=7 June 2021 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=24 July 2019}}{{cite web |title=Gormire Lake |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29545 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=7 June 2021}}

Greensett Moss

|Ribblehead

|{{coords|54.234

2.395}}

|{{convert|584|m}}

|{{convert|48,836|m3}}

|{{cite web |title=Unnamed Water Body ID 29558 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29558 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=10 April 2022}}{{cite web |title=Greensett Moss |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/greensett-moss-craven |website=OS GetOutside |access-date=10 April 2022}}

Hunters Hole

|Oughtershaw

|{{coords|54.227

2.132}}

|{{convert|627|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Hunters Hole Water Body ID 29575 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29575 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=4 June 2021}}

Locker Tarn

|Carperby

|{{coords|54.320

1.997}}

|{{convert|331|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|71,073|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Locker Tarn Water Body ID 29429 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29429 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}{{sfn|Gribble|1962|p=65}}

Malham Tarn

|Malhamdale

|{{coords|54.097

2.163}}

|{{convert|375|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|1,559,303|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Malham Tarn Water Body ID 29844 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29844 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Middle Tongue Tarn

|Oughtershaw

|{{coords|54.233

2.142}}

|{{convert|624|m|order=flip}}

|The name derives from the fact that its straddles "the tongue [of land] of two valleys"

|{{cite web |title=Middle Tongue Tarn Water Body ID 29572 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29572 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}{{cite web |title=Middle Tongue Tarn, Craven |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/middle-tongue-tarn-craven |website=getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}{{cite web |title=Middle Tongue :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53288203b47fc40c81005434-Middle+Tongue |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Newhouses Tarn

|Horton-in-Ribblesdale

|{{coords|54.169

2.308}}

|{{convert|248|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|66,261|m3|order=flip}}

|Adjacent to the River Ribble. Listed on the lakes portal as "Unnamed Water Body ID 29701" and on OS Mapping as The Tarn. One book source from 1921 describes a tarn "{{convert|1.5|mi}}" north of Horton-in-Ribblesdale as "Newhouses Tarn", named after the nearest hamlet.

|{{cite web |title=Unnamed Water Body ID 29701 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29701 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=29 May 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Hobson |first1=Bernard |title=The West Riding of Yorkshire |date=1921 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |page=22|oclc=187101920}}

Oughtershaw Tarn

|Oughtershaw

|{{coords|54.234

2.181}}

|{{convert|556|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Oughtershaw Tarn Water Body ID 29561 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29561 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Priest's Tarn

|Grassington

|{{coord|54.121

1.959}}

|{{convert|515.5|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Priest's Tarn, Craven |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/priests-tarn-craven |website=getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=8 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=Priests Tarn Water Body ID 29804 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29804 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=8 July 2022}}

Scarborough Mere

|Scarborough

|{{coords|54.261

0.412}}

|{{convert|43|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|280,205|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=The Mere Water Body ID 29493 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29493 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Semerwater

|Countersett

|{{coords|54.280

2.124}}

|{{convert|246|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|1,000,372|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Semer Water Water Body ID 29479 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29479 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Slatepit Moss

|Ravenseat Moor

|{{coords|54.438

2.221}}

|{{convert|572|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Slatepit Moss Water Body ID 29214 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29214 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

South Grain Tarn

|Oughtershaw

|{{coords|54.231

2.113}}

|{{convert|587|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=South Grain Tarn Water Body ID 29568 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29568 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Summer Lodge Tarn

|Crackpot

|{{coords|54.350

2.078}}

|{{convert|525|m|order=flip}}

|{{convert|119,760|m3|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Summer Lodge Tarn Water Body ID 29379 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29379 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}{{cite web |title=Summer Lodge Tarn |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/summer-lodge-tarn-richmondshire |website=getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}{{sfn|Gribble|1962|p=65}}

Whitaside Tarn

|Crackpot

|{{coords|54.351

2.036}}

|{{convert|528|m|order=flip}}

|{{cite web |title=Whitaside Tarn Water Body ID 29378 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29378 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Widdale Little Tarn{{#tag:ref|The county boundary between North Yorkshire and Cumbria runs through the middle of this tarn. Great Widdale Tarn, which is adjacent, is completely within Cumbria. Before the boundary changes of 1974, both tarns were in the West Riding of Yorkshire.{{cite book|last1=Chrystal|first1=Paul|title=The Place Names of Yorkshire; Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers and Dales, some Pubs too, in Praise of Yorkshire Ales|date=2017|publisher=Stenlake|location=Catrine| isbn=9781840337532|page=100|edition=1}}|name=Bundaries|group=note}}

|Widdale Fell

|{{coords|54.288

2.318}}

|{{convert|637|m|order=flip}}

|{{sfn|Lennie|2005|p=74}}{{cite web |title=Widdale Little Tarn Water Body ID 29473 |url=https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/detail.html#wbid=29473 |website=eip.ceh.ac.uk |access-date=14 December 2021}}

Notes

References

=Sources=

{{cite journal |last1=Gribble |first1=F. C. |title=Census of Black-headed Gull colonies in England and Wales, 1958 |journal=Bird Study |date=March 1962 |volume=9 |issue=1 |doi=10.1080/00063656209476012}}
{{cite book |last1=Lennie |first1=Stuart |title=The roof of Wensleydale : a portrait of Wensleydale's two thousand foot fells |date=2005 |publisher=Hayloft |location=Kirkby Stephen |isbn=1-904524-30-3}}
{{cite book |last1=Speight |first1=Harry |title=The Craven and North-West Yorkshire Highlands |date=1892 |publisher=E Stock |location=London|oclc=7219082}}

Category:Landforms of North Yorkshire