E: 20/05 Win A Relaxing Break In Cornwall (Help Please)

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Looks like Burnmoor Tarn in Cumbria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnmoor_Tarn

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There is a Ghost Story associated with this route:

In centuries past a young man of Wasdale Head died and was taken on the Corpse Road, his grieving mother following. It was a day of rain and low cloud and, in the vicinity of Burnmoor Tarn the horse took fright at something and galloped off into the cloud. Despite desperate searching it could not be found.

The heartbroken mother returned to Wasdale but died herself within the year. Her body was carried along the Corpse Road on another day of rain and cloud. But in the vicinity of the Tarn, her horse was similarly spooked and ran off. This time the search was even more intensive, for no-one could accept the loss of two members of the same family. And a horse carrying a body was found. But it was that of the son, the previous year. That was taken to Eskdale and interred, but the mother’s body was never seen again. And it is said that, sometimes, travellers crossing the moor in low cloud, will hear the pounding of hooves and see a shadowy horse shape gallop past then with a coffin on its back.