Holiday Castle Rentals in Cumbria, Lake District, North

The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. It is famous for its lakes and fells, and the early 19th century poetry of William Wordsworth.

The central and most-visited part of the area is contained in the Lake District National Park. It lies entirely within Cumbria, and is one of England's few mountainous regions. All the land in England higher than three thousand feet above sea level lies within the National Park. The Lake District also contains Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. The North denotes nearly anything north of the Midlands therefore it includes Northumberland which borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east and nearly eighty miles of North Sea coastline.

The cities of Carlisle and Berwick on Tweed are the last towns before crossing over to Scotland.