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Lake District
The
Lake District, also commonly known as The Lakes, is a mountainous region in
North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous not only for
its lakes and its mountains (or fells) but also for its associations with the
early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake
Poets.
The majority of the area was
designated as the Lake District National Park in 1951. It is the largest of the
thirteen National Parks in England and Wales, and the second largest in the UK
(after the Cairngorms).[1] It lies entirely within the modern county of
Cumbria, shared historically by the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire. All the land in England higher than three thousand feet above sea
level lies within the National Park, including Scafell Pike, the highest
mountain in England. It also contains the deepest and longest lakes in England, Wastwater and Windermere,
respectively.
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