Styhead Tarn

Styhead Tarn
Styhead Tarn, looking across towards Borrowdale
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Location	Cumbria
Coordinates	54°28′41″N3°12′10″W / 54.47806°N 3.20278°W / 54.47806; -3.20278
Primary outflows	Styhead Gill
Basin  countries	United Kingdom

Styhead Tarn is a tarn in the English Lake District, near the top of the Sty Head pass at the head of Borrowdale. It is on the route from Wasdale to Borrowdale and is, therefore, a well-visited point in the Lake District. It is also passed by walkers ascending Scafell Pike from Borrowdale via the Corridor Route. It is permissible to fish the tarn, which contains wild brown trout.

The Styhead Gill is the tarn's outlet which, flows into the River Derwent.

Styhead tarn has aquatic plants including intermediate water-starwort, quillwort, shoreweed, floating bur-reed and awlwort and this lake is within the Site of Special Scientific Interest called Scafell Pikes (see Scafells). ^{[1] [2]}

Rainfall

Although no official confirmation yet exists, Styhead Tarn is believed to hold the English record for the highest monthly rainfall total, ^[3] at about 1430 mm in November 2009. ^[4]

References

1. "SSSI detail". designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
2. "Protected Planet | Scafell Pikes". Protected Planet. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
3. Simons, Paul (25 November 2009). "Weather eye: The wettest habitable place in Britain" . The Times.
4. "Extreme Monthly Rainfall: November 2009" (PDF). Brampton Weather Station.