Lost lakeFamous
The Lake That Cries
A ghost from the tarn.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Fields where a tarn once lay
- Legend from
- Carlisle
- Tone
- Eerie
Bells beneath the water.
Tarn Wadling was a small lake near High Hesket, now drained. Gervase of Tilbury called it the lake that cries because bells were heard there. In a medieval poem, the ghost of Guinevere's mother appeared to Guinevere and Gawain there.