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Definition: Lake District |
Lake DistrictNoun1. A popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The Lake District National Park is one of thirteen National parks in the United Kingdom. It lies in the county of Cumbria. The park is one of England's few mountainous regions. All the land in England higher than three thousand feet above sea level lies within the Park.The highest point in England is the peak of Scafell Pike. The exact height differs according to source : Alfred Wainwright, writer of many popular guides to the Lake District mountains, gives it as 3210 feet (978m) but the Ordnance Survey gives 3206 feet (977m).
Despite its name there is only one body of water in the park with the word Lake in the name, Bassenthwaite Lake. All the others such as Windermere, Coniston Water, Ullswater and Buttermere use other forms, with 'mere' being particularly common.
Historically, farming, in particular of sheep, was the major industry in the region. Over the past century, tourism has grown rapidly to become the area's primary source of income. However the area was badly affected by the foot-and-mouth outbreak across the United Kingdom in 2001. Thousands of sheep, ordinarily grazing on the fellsides in the North of the Park were destroyed.
Amongst the area's most attractive towns are Grasmere, once home to William Wordsworth, Ambleside and Windermere.
See also
- National parks (England and Wales)
- National parks (Scotland)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lake District National Park."
Synonym: Lake DistrictSynonym: Lakeland (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lake District |
| English words defined with "Lake District": Lake Poets, Lakeland terrier ♦ William Wordsworth, Wordsworth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lake District": Lake School. (references) |
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 | Grasmere Church, Lake District, England. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | William Wordsworth in the Lake District, at cross-purposes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Language | Translations for "Lake District"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | järvialue (lake area). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akelay istrictday.(various references) | |
Russian | Озерная область. (various references) | |
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| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-k-l-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: rickettsial. | |
-2 letters: recitalist, rickettsia, trickliest, triticales. | |
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