The Lake District National Park

Lake District National Park

In the Uk there are 10 National Parks ,  3 in Wales and 2 in Scotland.
England – Broads, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, New Forest, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, and South Downs.
Wales – Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire Coast, and Snowdonia.

The Lake District National Park is England’s largest and covers 2292 square kilometres / 885 square miles

Width (west to east): 53 km / 33 miles – Width (north to south): 64 km / 40 miles

Highest mountains

1. Scafell Pike at 978 metres (3210 feet)
2. Scafell at 964 metres (3162 feet)
3. Helvellyn at 950 metres (3114 feet)
4. Skiddaw at 931 metres(3053 feet)
5. Great End at 910 metres (2986 feet)
6. Bowfell at 902 metres (2940 feet)

Lakes

• Deepest lake is Wastwater at 74 metres (243 feet)
• Longest lake is Windermere which is 10.5 miles long
• There is only one official lake – Bassenthwaite Lake. All the others are ‘meres’ or ‘waters’
• In the heavy rains of November 2009, Windermere lake rose 157cm. Over the week, that translates into an extra 35,700,000,000 litres were added, 22,100,000,000 over those 36 hours!

14 main lakes in order of sizeArea is to the nearest hectare. A hectare is equivalent to 10,000 square metres

1. Windermere – 1459
2. Ullswater – 884
3. Derwentwater – 531
4. Bassenthwaite – 518
5. Coniston – 475
6. Haweswater – 387
7. Thirlmere – 327
8. Ennerdale – 301
9. Wast Water – 283
10. Crummock Water – 258
11. Buttermere – 93
12. Grasmere – 61
13. Loweswater – 61
14. Rydal – 31

People

• 8.3 million day visitors a year (Source: Cumbria Tourism, 2008)
• Visitors to the Lake District come by private motor vehicle: 89 per cent
• 42,239 people live within the boundaries of the National Park.

Annual rainfall:

Seathwaite, at the foot of Scafell Pike, is the wettest inhabited place in England: 3552mm annual rainfall