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Most experts agree that there are sixteen lakes in the Lake District. There are many other pieces of water, called tarns. Although some tarns are bigger than one of the so-called lakes, most of the tarns, however, are very small, and some are not even named.

The Lakeland artist W. Heaton-Cooper paints or draws 103 of the tarns in his classic study The Tarns of Lakeland, published in 1960. One of them, Tarn Hows, is probably more visited than any of the lakes, and Brothers Water and Devoke Water are larger than the smallest 'lake'. He has also written 'The Lakes' in which he reveals his personal delights as a painter in his native countryside, as well as a large amount of information about the 17 English Lakes (he includes Brothers Water). He takes the reader through and beyond the obvious pleasures of exploring the Lakes into the story of the life and people that have and still do live and work beside the, There are 81 illustrations, 17 in colour. Both these books may be obtained from the Heaton Cooper Studio in Grasmere.