The Lake District is an area of mountains and lakes in the north west of England.

The Lake District is the largest national park in the United Kingdom, containing the full variety of ecosystem components within the area.

It has long been valued for its natural beauty and appreciated as a superlative example of man's harmonious interaction with its natural environment.

The spectacular landscape of the Lake District has inspired some of England's best known artists, in particular Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge who came to be known as the "Lake Poets"