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  • ...[[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]] commanding the mountains of the [[Lake District]] to the coast, stretching along the coast of the [[Solway Firth]] ...]], these two counties being dominated by the high, harsh mountains of the Lake District, an area of spectacular natural beauty. Cumberland is a popular h
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  • ...s western neighbour famous. The western half of the county is within the [[Lake District]] National Park. Westmorland is one of the Lake Counties. It is divided in parts by the fells; in the north-west of the cou
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  • ...the head of [[Windermere]], England's largest lake. The town is within the Lake District National Park and is a centre for fell-walking and sightseeing. ...side to [[Bowness-on-Windermere]] and Lakeside, offering fine views of the lake and surrounding mountains. Ambleside is a base for hiking, mountaineering a
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells ...nd]], providing its [[county top]], and indeed is the highest point in the Lake District after [[Scafell Pike]] and [[Scafell]], and the highest mountain i
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  • The '''Lake District''' is a mountainous region spreading over the greater part of [[Cu ...[England]] higher than three thousand feet above sea level lies within the Lake District, which height is represented by six [[Furth Munro]]s in Cumberland
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  • ...lake in [[Cumberland]], one of the larger of the beauteous waters of the [[Lake District]]. ...strial city of Manchester with water supplies. The water passes out of the lake through the Thirlmere Aqueduct; a tunnel 96 miles long which still provides
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  • '''Ullswater''' is a large and beauteous lake of the [[Lake District]], its largest after [[Windermere]], and it forms part of the bord ...and's most beautiful lake and so much more".</ref> it has been compared to Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
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  • ...le:Grasmere Lake 2007.jpg|right|thumb|350px|From Loughrigg Terrace towards Grasmere village]] ...Lakeland and its finest scenery. The lake gives its name to the village of Grasmere on the north shore of the water, and both are celebrated for their associat
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  • ...shores stands the hamlet of Rydal. It is a colleague to [[Grasmere]], the lake just upstream on the [[River Rothay]]. The lake and hamlet are found between [[Grasmere]] and [[Ambleside]] in the dale of the [[River Rothay]].<ref name=parker35>
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  • ...estmorland]], on the eastern shore of [[Windermere]] in the heart of the [[Lake District]]. Its position on Windermere has made the town a tourist honeypo ...frequent connecting buses from Bowness Pier and on to [[Ambleside]] and [[Grasmere]] deeper into the county's fells.
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells '''Fairfield''' is a fell in [[Westmorland]], within the [[Lake District]]. It is the highest of a group of hills in the Eastern Fells, sta
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells '''Dollywaggon Pike''' is a fell in the [[Lake District]] on the main spine of the [[Helvellyn]] range which marks the cou
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells ...d shape. Indeed, it figures so finely in views from the upper reach of the lake that it is sometimes referred to as 'the [[Ullswater]] Fell'.<ref name="ric
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells ...by this name it has become one of the most recognised of the hills of the Lake District.
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells ...rict]]. High Raise may not be the most spectacular of the mountains in the Lake District, but with an impressive height of 2,500 feet it is the highest poi
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  • The '''Wainwright Memorial Walk''' is a 107-mile route through the Lake District, through [[Westmorland]] and [[Cumberland]] on a route first devis ..., with some 40,000 feet of ascent along its way. It runs over many of the Lake District's most celebrated fells and looks down on its finest lakes: Wainw
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  • ...it is from these waters that Cumberland and Westmorland are known as "the Lake Counties", or "Lakeland". ...t all the lakes, only one is actually named "Lake", namely [[Bassenthwaite Lake]], while the others bear the title "Mere" or "Water", while the little lake
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  • The walk passes through three counties and three national parks: the [[Lake District]] National Park, the [[Yorkshire Dales]] National Park, and the [[ ...wn during the day: many walkers split the Borrowdale–Patterdale stage at Grasmere in order to maintain this pattern and avoid having two major uphill section
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  • |range=Lake District Southern Fells ...erland]] is the most northerly mountain in the [[Scafell]] chain, in the [[Lake District]].
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  • |village=Grasmere '''Dove Cottage''' is a house on the edge of [[Grasmere]] in a green bowl amongst the high fells of [[Westmorland]]. The cottage i
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells ...ve Crag''' is a fell in [[Westmorland]], amongs the Eastern Fells of the [[Lake District]]. The fell stands four miles south of [[Glenridding]], and reache
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells '''Great Rigg''' is a fell in [[Westmorland]], in the [[Lake District]] four miles north-north-west of [[Ambleside]] and reaching a heig
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells ...[[Lake District]]. Seat Sandal stands two and a half miles north of the [[Grasmere]] village, from where it is very well seen. Nevertheless, it tends to be ov
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells ...morland]], amongst the [[Lake District]]'s Eastern Fells, a mile east of [[Grasmere]]. It is part of the [[Fairfield (fell)|Fairfield]] group.
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells ...considered an outlier of the [[Fairfield (fell)|Fairfield]] group in the [[Lake District]]'s Eastern Fells.
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  • |range=Lake District Eastern Fells ...in [[Cumberland]], within the [[Lake District]]. It is an outlier of the Lake District's Eastern Fells, standing to the north of [[Ullswater]], bounded o
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  • |range=Lake District Far Eastern Fells '''Tarn Crag''' is a fell in the [[Lake District]], in [[Westmorland]]. It stands to the east of Longsleddale in t
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells '''Sergeant Man''' is a fell in the [[Lake District]]. It is properly a secondary summit of [[High Raise (Langdale)|Hi
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells |picture caption=Steel Fell, as seen from Grasmere village.
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells '''Tarn Crag''' is a fell in the Central Fells of the [[Lake District]], within [[Westmorland]]. (Another [[Tarn Crag (Far Eastern Fells
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells ...n of rocky tops. Many routes of ascent are possible, beginning either from Grasmere or Great Langdale, though the paths are often poorly marked and hard to fol
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells '''Calf Crag''' is a fell in the [[Lake District]], on the eastern side of the [[High Raise (Langdale)|High Raise]]
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells ...intermediate height on the ridge between Greenburn and Far Easedale in the Lake District's Central Fells.
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells |picture caption=Silver How above Grasmere village from Stone Arthur
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  • |range=Lake District Central Fells ...g Fell''' is a hill in [[Westmorland]], amongst the Central Fells of the [[Lake District]]. It stands on the end of the long ridge coming down from [[High
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  • ...hich runs down through the most celebrated parts of that county, through [[Grasmere]] and [[Rydal Water]] and down to the head of [[Windermere]]. ...t about 1,542 feet above sea level ({{map|NY306108}}): its basin covers [[Grasmere Common]] including [[Easedale Tarn]], the southern flanks of [[Fairfield (f
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  • ...re]] and consequently the path vists both. The route is wholly within the Lake District National Park. The Windermwere Way does not stick to the shores of the lake but takes in the summits of [[Wansfell]], [[Loughrigg Fell]] and [[Gummer's
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  • ...ay]], as it curves round to enter Windermere. The estate runs down to the lake and to the river, which marks the county border with [[Westmorland]]. Toda ...y-hall/our-location Brathay Hall - location]</ref> Wordsworth's home at [[Grasmere]] is just a few miles to the north up the [[River Rothay]].
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  • ..., near [[Ambleside]], in [[Westmorland]], deep in the green heart of the [[Lake District]]. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth fr ...his growing family and many visitors. After a period in [[Allan Bank]] in Grasmere, the Wordsworths moved to Rydal Mount in 1813.
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  • ...irts of the village of [[Rydal]] in [[Westmorland]], in the heart of the [[Lake District]].<ref>{{britlist|452647|Rydal Hall}}</ref> It has an early ninet ...//www.walklakes.co.uk/walk_76.html|title=WalkLakes • Lake District Walk: Grasmere and Rydal Water|author=Elizabeth Oldham|work=walklakes.co.uk|accessdate=25
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  • ...to the west of [[Grasmere]] village in [[Westmorland]], the heart of the [[Lake District]]. It is best known for being from 1808 to 1811 the home of Willia ...that "the house will stare you in the face from every part of the Vale [of Grasmere] and entirely destroy its character of simplicity and seclusion".
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  • |picture=Grasmere, Cumbria - geograph.org.uk - 694771.jpg |picture caption=Grasmere seen from near Kelbarrow
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