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Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite

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Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It includes the village of Seathwaite and the hamlets of Cockley Beck, Hall Dunnerdale and Hoses, and is located 6.2 miles (10.0 km) north of Broughton in Furness, 34.0 miles (54.7 km) west of Kendal and 57.3 miles (92.2 km) south of Carlisle. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 129, decreasing at the 2011 census to 119. Since 1976 the parish has been governed by Duddon Parish Council.

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Seathwaite, Westmorland and Furness
Seathwaite, Westmorland and Furness

Seathwaite is a village in the Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria in North West England. It is in the Lake District and part of historic Lancashire. The parish has a population of 129. The village's name comes from old Norse words sef (sedges) and thveit (clearing) and may be taken to mean "Sedges clearing"; written records from 1340 spell the village as Seuthwayt.Nearby Seathwaite Tarn takes its name from the village, the tarn is west of the Coniston Fells and the village is further south west of the tarn. The village is north east of Hall Dunnerdale. It around the old Walna Scar road, which can be reached from the A595 in the south, or the A593 from Skelwith Bridge through the steep Hardknott–Wrynose pass road heading north.A local landmark is the Newfield Inn, a pub that dates from the 16th century that is reputed to have been visited by William Wordsworth on his trips around the Lake District in the early 19th century. Another prominent local building is the Church of the Holy Trinity which was originally built in the early 16th century. William Wordsworth visited the church and dedicated one of his 35 Duddon Sonnets to the place and to Robert Walker (1709–1802) who was parson at the church for 66 years. The church contains a memorial plaque to Walker, who was known as "Wonderful Walker" because of his long and exemplary ministry. Wordsworth refers to him in the sonnet as someone "whose good works formed an endless retinue". The church itself was completely rebuilt in 1874 due to its rundown state, it was reconsecrated in May 1875.

Seathwaite Tarn
Seathwaite Tarn

Seathwaite Tarn is a reservoir in the Furness Fells within the English Lake District. It is located to the south of Grey Friar and to the west of Brim Fell (on the ridge between The Old Man of Coniston and Swirl How) and north east of the village of Seathwaite on the east of the Duddon Valley. In order to create a source of drinking water the existing tarn was considerably enlarged with a dam in 1904. During the dam construction some of the navvies rioted damaging buildings in the village, several rioters were shot, one dying the next day. The dam is almost 400 yards (366 m) long and is concrete cored with slate buttresses, the resulting depth of the tarn being around 80 feet (24 m). Water is not abstracted directly from the tarn, but flows some distance downriver to an off-take weir. On the slopes of Brim Fell, above the head of the reservoir, are the remains of Seathwaite Tarn Mine. This was worked for copper in the mid 19th century, and also appears as a location in the novel The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. Rocks in the area were the first confirmed occurrence of wittichenite in the British Isles.Bronze Age ring cairns were found close to Seathwaite Tarn in 2003, these were excavated in 2003 and 2007.Seathwaite Tarn has suffered from acidification. An experiment in 1992–1993 to reduce the acidification by using a phosphorus-based fertiliser increased the pH from 5.1 to 5.6 and changed the levels of the different species of the rotifer assemblage significantly.