Lake District is a beautiful region of lakes and mountains in northwestern England. It extends about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from north to south, and 25 miles (40 kilometers) from east to west. The Lake District is a national park.
The region has 15 lakes. They include Coniston Water, Ullswater, Derwentwater, Buttermere, Windermere, Grasmere, Thirlmere, Crummock Water, and Ennerdale Water. Some mountains in the region rise more than 3,000 feet (900 meters) above sea level. They include Helvellyn, Skiddaw, and the 3,210-feet (978-meter) high Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain. The chief towns in the Lake District are Ambleside, Keswick, and Windermere.
The Lake District has attracted many writers and artists. The region is closely associated with the romantic movement in English poetry. The poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth immortalized the Lake District in their poems. They became known as the Lake Poets. The writers Thomas Gray, John Keats, John Ruskin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Alfred Lord Tennyson were also associated with the Lake District.
