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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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