Lake District
About Lake District
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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The first question was how many lakes are there in the Lake District? It was a bit of a trick question. Most of them are meers or waters. The only one that's actually called a lake is Bassenthwaite Lake.
from NSTAAF International Factball: Colombia v Ivory Coast, 2014-06-19 at 00:09:57 · read transcript
Other times Lake District came up
My sister once was climbing off her hill in the Lake District and then went to the top and when she got to the bottom she realized she'd left her phone at the top and that's how the whole way back up the hill had gone to get her phone.
384: No Such Thing As Jiminy's Cricket Shop, 2021-07-30 · listen
And even the miners, as you were mining it, you would have two men with blunder bosses next to you to make sure you weren't slipping it into your pockets. It is kind of extraordinary that, so there was this naturally occurring graphite that was found in Borodale in the Lake District, and that is the only big source of solid graphite that's ever been found. We, I mean, Britain controlled the pencil industry for some time.
80: No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control, 2015-09-25 · listen
The British Lake District? The British Lake District. His family came from Scotland and from the north of England. His mum was born in Carlisle. He visited the Lake District for the first time in 1896. He went there five times altogether. He was a cycling fanatic. A lot of people say he was the first person in the state of North Carolina to get on a bike.
128: No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill, 2016-08-26 · listen
The British Lake District. His mother was, his family came from Scotland and from the north of England. His mum was born in Carlisle. He visited the Lake District for the first time in 1896. He went there five times altogether. He was a cycling fanatic. A lot of people say he was the first person in the state of North Carolina to get on a bike.
No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill, 2016-08-26 · listen
Coordinates: 54.4609, -3.0886