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Lakeland at Brent Cross Shopping Centre, 2022. Alan Rayner, an agricultural feed salesman, had the idea of providing local farmers with polythene bags for packing poultry.He set up a mail order business with his wife Dorothy, supplying agricultural plastics and home-freezing products from the garage of their Windermere home in the Lake District. [2]
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England.It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and the Cumbrian mountains, and for its literary associations with Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, and the Lake Poets.
These are the 214 fells selected by Alfred Wainwright for a chapter in his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. See List of Wainwrights for them sorted by book, and the other Lake District fells he listed in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Scafell Pike, 978 m (3209 ft) Scafell, 964 m (3163 ft) Helvellyn, 950 m (3117 ft)
The Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry, formerly the Museum of Lakeland Life and sometimes abbreviated to MOLLI, is a local museum in Kendal, Cumbria, northwest England. [1] The museum was opened in 1971 by Princess Alexandra. It won the first ever UK Museum of the Year award in 1973. [2]
The valley has an annual rainfall of 2,408 millimetres (94.8 in), [8] higher than the Lake District average, which is itself considerably wetter than the UK average. The land in Little Langdale is now mainly used for sheep and cattle farming, although until 1940 at least some of the farmland was ploughed.
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Lakeland Dairies Group is an Irish dairy co-operative based in County Cavan, Ireland. It operates across sixteen counties in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . Lakeland Dairies processes more than 2 billion litres of milk annually from 3,200 suppliers making it Ireland's largest dairy co-operative, and second largest milk ...