 The Lake District National Park in
the county of Cumbria is the largest English National Park. It
is an area only 30 miles across but has 16 major lakes squeezed
between the steeply pitched faces of England's highest mountains.
It is almost alpine with waterfalls, picturesque stone-built
villages and U-shaped valleys. The heart of the region is Scafell
with Scafell Pike at 3,205ft and Great Gable at 2,949ft. The
spectacular mountain scenery, forest trails and lakeside paths
attract both ramblers and serious hikers. 18 million visitors
a year enjoy the park with the villages around Lake Windermere
being very popular. The scenery in the northern lakes around
Keswick and Ullswater is the most dramatic, here you will find
Helvellyn at 3114ft and the infamous Striding Edge. The Lake
District has been inspiration to writers, poets and artists.
Wordsworth and his fellow poets became known as the "Lake
Poets" and the social philosopher and art critic John Ruskin
made the Lake District his home. |
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