It’s some time since I put anything on this site about the Lake District (in fact it’s some weeks since I uploaded anything at all!) so although I’ve not forgotten my plan to have more about Lancashire and Yorkshire today’s picture is of Bowness on Windermere. It was only when writing the first paragraph above […]
The Lake District National Park
The Lake District is Britain’s oldest national park, celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2011. It occupies the central region of the county of Cumbria in northwest England, contains almost all of the country’s major lakes and most of its highest mountains. The scenery is splendid, and the Lake District has been a popular tourist destination ever since popular tourism developed in the nineteenth century.
Lake District Directory
We are currently developing pages to help our site visitors both to explore the Lake District online and, hopefully, to plan a visit on the ground. Click here for our Lake District Directory. It is still incomplete but will be expanded during September (2011).
Below is a selection of items from our Around-England blog many of which relate to the work and visitor facilities of the National Park Authority.