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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.
A Friends of the Lake District report backs a levy on tourism to raise money for local services. ... USA TODAY. Icy East Coast is getting a break − but it will be warm, wet and sloppy.
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).
The Lake District is a National Park in the north west of the country which, in addition to its lakes, contains a complex range of hills. These are known locally as fells and range from low hills to the highest ground in England. Hundreds of tops exist and many writers have attempted to draw up definitive lists. In doing so the compilers ...
Great Langdale is a valley in the Lake District National Park in North West England, the epithet "Great" distinguishing it from the neighbouring valley of Little Langdale. Langdale is also the name of a valley in the Howgill Fells , elsewhere in Cumbria .
Castlerigg Stone Circle (alternatively Keswick Carles, or Carles) [3] [4] is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. [5] It is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany , constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from approximately ...
Derwentwater, or Derwent Water, is a lake in the Lake District in North West England, immediately south of Keswick. It is in the unitary authority of Cumberland within the ceremonial county of Cumbria. It is the third largest lake by area, after Windermere and Ullswater. It has a length of 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi), a maximum width of 1.91 ...
Watendlath is a hamlet and tarn (a small lake) in the Lake District in the English county of Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, Watendlath is owned by the National Trust and sits high between the Borrowdale and Thirlmere valleys at 863 feet (263 m) above sea level.