Innominate Tarn Innominate..a word I had never come across and on my walk over Haystacks wondered as to its meaning as it is out of character with any other word I have ever heard of in this area. The word "Innominate" means "without a name or anonymous" and is derived from the Latin word "n min tus", which means "nameless" Located just below the mountain summit of haystacks it is neither remarkable or interesting and certainly not the most picturesque tarn in the Lake District, but this tarn was chosen by the legendary fell walker Alfred Wainwright to be his final resting place and his wife Betty scattered his ashes on the shore of this tarn after his death in 1991. It is a place that many would pass by with neither a second glance or an awareness of its links to Alfred Wainwright. But if one pauses for a while and rests on the rocky shoreline there is a peaceful quietness about the place and when Wainwright did these walks before the introduction of the tourist industry no doubt being a solitary person would have found great pleasure in the peace and solitude of these surroundings. The word "Tarn" is of Norse origin and means small lakes which derives from the word 'tjorn', meaning teardrop.