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The Lake District The Lake DistrictAlso known as The Lakes or Lakeland, it is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes and its mountains (or fells) John Short/ age fotostock

Very green, English landscapes have always been praised by poets for their changing decors punctuated by rivers, lakes and hills with curves softened by erosion. The famous landscape painters of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries - Gainsborough, Constable, and Jongkind - gave them letters of nobility.

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