United Kingdom - Cumbria, England

Tony Austin - United Kingdom - 10.08.2012

The Lake District, North West England.

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, forests and 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 Lakes were designed a National Park on 9 May 1951, becoming only the second National Park in the United Kingdom with the Peak District. It is the most visited national park in the United Kingdom with 15.8 million annual visitors and over 23 annual day visits. It is the largest of the thirteen National Parks in England and Wales, and the second largest in the UK after the Cairngorms.