The New Student's Reference Work/Lake District

Lake District, the mountainous region of Cumberland, Westmoreland and a small portion of Lancashire in England, within which are 16 small lakes and many mountain streams and mountains rising to 3,000 feet. The district is about 30 miles from north to south and 25 from east to west, affording a beauty and variety of scenery seldom found in so small an area. The place is visited by many tourists. The district has been immortalized by poets, the most prominent being Wordsworth; others are Southey, Prof. John Wilson (“Kit North”) Snelley, Mrs. Hemans, Harriet Martineau, Ruskin and Gray. See Professor Knight's English Lake District in the Poems of Wordsworth.