Lakes and Valleys in the Lake District

It is the concentration of lakes, set within a series of radiating valleys, which more than anything else has stamped an almost unique imprint on the landscape of this corner of EnglandSpa hotel lake district . To the eighteenth century topographic writers, it was simply 'The Lakes'. Lacking any scientific evidence to support or disprove their views, estimates of the depth of the various lakes varied between wide limits. A lake like Derwentwater, with its island, was not considered very

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