Innominate Tarn
Last resting place of Alfred Wainwright
Innominate Tarn is a small lake (Tarn ) in the northern English Lake District National Park. It is located southeast of the summit of Haystacks at an altitude of 520 meters.
An earlier name is Loaf Tarn, because the Torfinseln remember loaves of bread in the lake.
Apart from its scenic location and remarkable mountain scenery fame came relatively small and insignificant lake with visitors and hikers ( Fellwalker ) of the Lake District are particularly well known and almost cult status: On the banks of Innominate Tarn the ashes of the author Alfred Wainwright is scattered. In Volume 7 The Western Fells of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Wainwright had expressed this desire.
To appreciate Wainwright's work, it was suggested after his death by officials of the Allerdale Borough Council to rename the Innominate Tarn Tarn in Wainwright. There were dissenting votes, which said it was unthinkable in the Lake District Places to rename mountains, lakes or the like and also Wainwright himself would have been not agree, because he always appeared modest and restrained.
Proponents held contrary, it would be given its performance a fitting tribute, as Wainwright loved maps and he would have found it amusing sure, immortalized his name on a card to see. There were also cases in the past in which locations in the Lake District had been renamed after people, such as Birkett Fell, named after a judge ruled in a lawsuit to preserve the Ullswater against the waterworks of Manchester or the Robinson mountain, named after a local landowner, was on its possession of the mountain. Wainwright himself said to the naming of Robinson: " It could have been worse - It might have been a Smith or Jones or a Wainwright ". ( " It could have been worse and a Smith or Jones can be - or even a Wainwright ").
The necessary steps have been taken and also the state Kartografierungsgesellschaft Ordnance Survey agreed to use the new name in future publications on official maps.
But then it turned out that the lake is not located on the territory of the Borough of Allerdale, but falls within the jurisdiction of Copeland. Since then, the initiative rests.
In the church of the village of Buttermere, which is visible from the lake, is commemorated by a plaque at Wainwright.
Today, the Innominate Tarn is a popular destination of Fellwalker who want to visit the place in the Lake District, which Alfred Wainwright felt so connected that he chose him to be the final resting place:
"All I want in the end is a resting place on the shore of Innominate Tarn on Haystacks. "