Lake District National Park

2,362 square kilometres of northwest England containing every scrap of English ground above 914 metres, Scafell Pike at 978 metres among it, plus sixteen named lakes. The radial valley pattern was cut by Devensian glaciation that ended about 11,700 years ago, and the park holds 24 Sites of Special Scientific Interest designated partly for Borrowdale volcanic tuff and Skiddaw slate. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017 as a cultural landscape, and the authority reports more than 18 million visitors a year, so solitude is a matter of timing and choice of valley. A note on the map pin: open map data offered a close but not exact match for this place, so the marker may sit slightly off. If it looks wrong, please flag this entry so it can be checked.

Nation

England

Year Designated

1951

Area (km²)

2362

Highest Point

Scafell Pike, 978 m

Category: Nature & Outdoors

Tags: national-park, england, mountains, lakes, unesco, hiking

Coordinates: 54.4785304, -3.0655331

Part of The national parks of Great Britain

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