Lake District

noun

1. a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.

Lake District

noun

1. a region of lakes and mountains in NW England, in Cumbria: includes England's largest lake (Windermere) and highest mountain (Scafell Pike); national park; literary associations (the Lake Poets); tourist region Also calledLakeland

Example Sentences

Some victims believed he had property abroad, fancy cars, a log cabin in the Lake District or a caravan near Blackpool.

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Matt Staniek, a campaigner against sewage pollution and founder of Save Windermere, said Windermere was “the jewel in the crown of the Lake District National Park, and it's being used as an open sewer”.

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Potential offences include criminal damage, as well as heritage crime as the Lake District is a designated Unesco World Heritage Site.

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People who sell the Big Issue have escaped city life to take part in an expedition in the Lake District.

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Lake District documentary-maker and photographer Terry Abraham said Mr Naylor would be "remembered like Wordsworth, Ruskin and Wainwright within the history of the most beautiful corner of England".

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