Tarns is a small farming settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom.

[6] The tarn for which the settlement is named has a surface area of 21 acres (8.5 hectares), and a perimeter of three-quarters of a mile (1.1 km).

[7] Tarns has no public transportation links, though a shuttle-bus is laid on to and from Aspatria railway station (the nearest station to the settlement) for visitors to Solfest during the August bank holiday weekend.

[8] The nearest stops on a mainline bus service are two-and-a-half miles away at either Mawbray or Beckfoot on the B5300 road, where services run every two hours in the direction of Silloth and Maryport, or alternatively four miles away at Abbeytown, where buses run from Silloth to Carlisle via Wigton.

There is a tea room called The Gincase near Newtown[10] and a garden centre at Bank Mill near Beckfoot[11] which are both accessible by road from Tarns.