http://www.flickr.com/photos/willcorder/tags/lake/ Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:29:56 -0700 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:29:56 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6019/buddyicons/67998209@N05.jpg?1338595819#67998209@N05 http://www.flickr.com/photos/willcorder/tags/lake/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/willcorder/6980287253/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/willcorder/">Will Corder | Photography</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/willcorder/6980287253/" title="Tarn Hows"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6980287253_545cae5e31_m.jpg" width="240" height="144" alt="Tarn Hows" /></a></p> <p>Until 1862 much of the Tarn Hows area was part of the open common grazing of Hawkshead parish. The remaining enclosed land and many of the local farms and quarries were owned by the Marshall family of Monk Coniston Hall (known as Waterhead House at the time). James Garth Marshall (1802–1873) who was the Member of Parliament for Leeds (1847–1852) and third son of the industrialist John Marshall, gained full possession of all of the land after an enclosure act of 1862 and embarked on a series of landscape improvements in the area including expanding the spruce, larch and pine plantations around the tarns; demolition of the Water Head Inn at Coniston; and the construction of a dam at Low Tarn that created the larger tarn that is there today.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/willcorderphotography" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">'Like' Will Corder Photography on Facebook</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.willcorderphotography.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.willcorderphotography.com</a></p> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:29:56 -0700 2011-07-29T15:37:10-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Will Corder | Photography) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/6980287253 54.385905 -3.025703 54.385905 -3.025703 16767 Tarn Hows <p>Until 1862 much of the Tarn Hows area was part of the open common grazing of Hawkshead parish. The remaining enclosed land and many of the local farms and quarries were owned by the Marshall family of Monk Coniston Hall (known as Waterhead House at the time). James Garth Marshall (1802–1873) who was the Member of Parliament for Leeds (1847–1852) and third son of the industrialist John Marshall, gained full possession of all of the land after an enclosure act of 1862 and embarked on a series of landscape improvements in the area including expanding the spruce, larch and pine plantations around the tarns; demolition of the Water Head Inn at Coniston; and the construction of a dam at Low Tarn that created the larger tarn that is there today.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/willcorderphotography" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">'Like' Will Corder Photography on Facebook</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.willcorderphotography.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.willcorderphotography.com</a></p> Will Corder | Photography trees lake landscape forrest lakedistrict cumbria coniston tarnhows willcorder wwwwillcorderphotographycom