🏛️ Lake District

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The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mountains, and for its literary associations with Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, Arthur Ransome, and the Lake Poets.

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Lake District is a cultural World Heritage site in United Kingdom, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Lake District was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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