Moss Eccles Tarn, Near Sawrey

Water lilies on Moss Eccles Tarn, Near Sawrey in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Moss Eccles Tarn was a favourite haunt of Beatrix Potter. She bought the tarn in 1913, stocked it with brown trout and planted the water lilies. She and her husband spent many hours in a rowing boat here. The tarn provides a setting for the ‘Tale of Jeremy Fisher’. Beatrix left the tarn to the National Trust upon her death.