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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.
The map shows the locations of the lakes with a volume over 4 x 10 6 m³ and gives an indication of the volume of water in each lake. The markers suggest this by showing the size of a drop of water where the volume of the drop would be in proportion to the quantity of water in the lake (the diameter of the drop is proportional to the cube root of the lake's volume).
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) Skiddaw, 931 m (3054 ft) Great End, 910 m (2986 ft) Bowfell, 902 m (2959 ft) Great Gable, 899 m (2949 ft) Pillar, 892 m (2927 ft)
Dove Cottage, Wordsworth's home near Grasmere in the Lake District. Wordsworth was born in the Lake District and spent much of his life living there. Wordsworth and his friends Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge became known as Lake Poets not only because they lived in this area but also because its landscapes and people inspired their work.
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National Trust properties in the Lake District (28 P) W. Windermere, Cumbria (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Lake District"
The Lake District National Park was created in 1951 covering an area of over 2,000 square kilometres (770 sq mi) and, although its population is only 42,000, over 10 million visitors arrive each year, mostly attracted by the lakes and fells.
The 2005 anniversary cover of The Eastern Fells.Apart from the bottom banner, the design has not changed since first publication. A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in northwest England.
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