The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural
area in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes and its
mountains (or fells), and also its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth and the Lake Poets.
The central and most-visited part of the area is contained in the
Lake District National Park — one of fourteen National parks in the United Kingdom. It lies entirely within Cumbria, and is one of England's few mountainous regions. All the land in
England higher than three thousand feet above sea level lies within the National Park. The Lake District
also contains Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England.
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