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In response to your query about the spelling of these Lake District names, I have checked them again on both the lin. Barts and lin. O.S. maps. Barts quite clearly prints the name as WASTDALE, but on the O.S. it is WASDALE, the same as Wasdalc Hall and Wasdale Head, but on both maps the lake is WASTWATER. Now that I use the O.S. maps, 1 have adopted their spelling of Wasdale, though it is also interesting to note that the people who live there always refer to the valley as WASDALE.