Thirlmere, one of the lakes in the English Lake District, in Cumberland, 5 m. SE. of Keswick; since 1885 its waters have been impounded for the use of Manchester, the surface raised 50 ft. by embankments, and the area more than doubled.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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