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Hawes Water

British  
/ hɔːz /

noun

  1. a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It is thus that a lake should be seen, and it was thus that Hawes Water was seen by them from the flat stone on the side of Swindale Fell.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

It came to me on the night before my birthday, in 1891, I think, when I was staying with a friend at the Dun Bull Hotel, by Hawes Water in Westmorland.

From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

Mardale Green, at the head of Hawes Water, is a delightful and little visited spot.

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith

But the girls had arranged that immediately after church they would start for a walk up the Beacon Hill, across the fells, towards Hawes Water.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

Waste Water, Ullswater, and Hawes Water N.E. by S.W.; while Ennerdale Water lies nearly E. by W. Can we account in any way, and if so how, for these varied directions?

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Sir John Lubbock

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