The English Lake District

World Heritage

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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The English Lake District is a mountainous area in northwest England, with valleys shaped by Ice Age glaciers and subsequently by agro-pastoral land use systems, characterised by fields surrounded by walls. The combination of nature and human activity has created a harmonious landscape with mountains reflected in the lakes. Mansions, gardens and parks were deliberately built to enhance the beauty of the landscape. From the 18th century, the Picturesque Movement and later the Romantic Movement greatly admired this landscape, celebrating it in paintings, drawings and writings. It also inspired awareness of the importance of beautiful landscapes and led to early efforts to preserve them.

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# Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

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# romanticism

# Picturesque Movement

Coniston Water from Holme Fell

The impressive bulk of the Scafell massif, the highest ground in England, seen over Wasdale

Panorama of the Wasdale screes descending into Wastwater, the deepest lake in England

Skiddaw seen from Derwentwater

Forestry operations on Harter Fell

The view towards Wast Water from the cairn built by the Westmorland brothers in 1876 to the SW of th...

The town of Keswick, nestled between Derwent Water and the fells of Skiddaw

A panorama from the summit of Scafell Pike, August 2007

The A591 road as it passes through the countryside between Ambleside and Grasmere

Derwent Water, one of 21 large water bodies in the Lake District

Haweswater Reservoir from Harter Fell

A panorama from the summit of Scafell Pike, August 2007

The village of Glenridding and Ullswater

The location of the Lake District National Park, and approximate extent, shown in white, within Nort...

Panorama of the Wasdale screes descending into Wastwater, the deepest lake in England

The Tongue Valley (looking from Dollywaggon Pike)

The vendace (Coregonus vandesius) is England's rarest species of fish, and is found only in the Lake...

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Information extracted from Wikidata

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instance of	geographic region
located in the administrative territorial entity	North Yorkshire
located in the administrative territorial entity	Cumbria
operator	Lake District National Park Authority
locator map image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cumbria%20UK%20relief%20location%20map.jpg
executive body	Lake District
orientation	1452615
number of rooms	viaf-244088687
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/0125ny
Commons category	Lake District
coordinate location	Point(-3.166666666 54.5)
named as	Lake District (Anglie)
start time	2017-07-01T00:00:00Z
official website	http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/
topic's main category	Category:Lake District
page banner	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derwent%20Water%20Banner.jpg
National Heritage List for England number	1452615
length	55
elevation above sea level	978
area	2362
width	55
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (v)
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)
located in protected area	Lake District National Park
named as	Lake District

inception	1951-08-13T00:00:00Z
reason for deprecation	refers to different subject
intended subject of deprecated statement	Lake District National Park
described by source	The Nuttall Encyclopædia
stated as	Lake District
start time	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	The English Lake District