Lake District Walks, Gatesgarth

The Tarns...sometimes found in the vales but numerous among the mountains...Lying as they do in the solitary recesses of the lofty mountains, at the foot of steep precipices, huge fragments of rock treed on their shores, and Heath-clad promontories dividing their black sullen waters, they excite in the mind feelings of melancholy and awful solemnity." The Lake District...Rev William Ford (1847)

Wikipedia....The tarn is the location where Alfred Wainwright's ashes were scattered. He had expressed this wish in A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Volume 7: The Western Fells and in his memoirs: "All I ask for, at the end, is a last long resting place by the side of Innominate Tarn, on Haystacks, where the water gently laps the gravelly shore and the heather blooms and Pillar and Gable keep unfailing watch. A quiet place, a lonely place. I shall go to it, for the last time, and be carried: someone who knew me in life will take me and empty me out of a little box and leave me there alone. And if you, dear reader, should get a bit of grit in your boot as you are crossing Haystacks in the years to come, please treat it with respect. It might be me." ~ Alfred Wainwright - from "Memoirs of a Fellwalker" (1990)