Foxes Tarn

Foxes Tarn

Foxes Tarn in 2006 looking towards Scafell Pike
Location Sca Fell, Cumbria
Coordinates 54°26′49.55″N 3°13′16.34″W / 54.4470972°N 3.2212056°W / 54.4470972; -3.2212056
Max. depth 3 feet (0.91 m)[1] / 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in)[2]
Surface elevation approx 820-830 m

Foxes Tarn is one of the smallest named tarns in the Lake District,[3] situated slightly to the east of the summit of Sca Fell.

Foxes Tarn is also one of the highest named tarns in the Lake District, with either it or the nearby Broadcrag Tarn being the higher.[2][4] Harry Griffin writing in The Guardian gives the height of Broadcrag Tarn as 2,746 feet (837 m)[1] (N.B. this does not agree well with the latest OS maps). The Nuttall's guide puts Broadcrag Tarn as slightly higher based on looking at large scale maps.[3] A higher unnamed tarn on Long Top, the highest of the Crinkle Crags, has an altitude of 2,786 feet (849 m).[1]

The tarn varies in size[5] and has very little outflow, but what little there is descends to How Beck and the River Esk.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Country diary - The Lake District - A Harry Griffin
  2. 1 2 Foxes Tarn
  3. 1 2 The Tarns of Lakeland, Volume 1: West, John Nuttall & Anne Nuttall, p98, Cicerone, 1995
  4. ↑ Tarns – Foxes Tarn
  5. ↑ Lake District Directory from walkthefells.net - Foxes Tarn
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