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"Scenery galore" in Windermere and the Lake District

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Sat, 19 Jul 2025, 1:17pm
Wray Castle. Photo / National Trust
Wray Castle. Photo / National Trust

"Scenery galore" in Windermere and the Lake District

Author
¾ÅÒ»ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞtalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sat, 19 Jul 2025, 1:17pm

"It’s undoubtedly Britain’s equivalent to our Queenstown Lakes district. Windermere and the Lake District is England’s favourite national park, a sprawling tourist honeypot that stretches across hundreds of square kilometres of rugged Cumbrian countryside, woodland valleys, shimmering tarns and lakes – all backed by strikingly craggy mountains. It was the 18th century Romantic poets who captured the world’s imagination, igniting the region’s first tourism wave. Since then, the stature of the Lake District has only grown as a getaway destination, the wave has never crested, culminating in the district securing World Heritage status just eight years ago."

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