Malham Tarn House
Tarn House/Malham Tarn Field Centre.
The original house was built around 1780 by Thomas Lister, later Lord Ribblesdale, as a shooting lodge. It was bought by James Morrison in 1852 and inherited by his son, Walter, in 1857. He died in 1921. The new house was built on top of the old and a new wing added in the 1870s. At one time there was a tower topped by a bell tower but these were dismantled in 1963. The interior has much quality woodwork, plaster work and fine bowed windows overlooking the tarn. Charles kingsley, a friend of Walter Morrison MP, is said to have stayed at Tarn House and had the inspiration for the Water Babies from the Cove which forms part of the estate. Charles Darwin is also thought to have stayed there
The estate was given to the National Trust in 1947 by Mrs. Hutton-Croft. It is now managed in let farms with a lease to the Field Studies Council
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