– More than 41million people flock to the region, annually.
– Visitors spend a total of £1.8billion each year, providing 18,000 jobs.
– It’s home to England’s largest natural lake, Windermere, and the country’s highest mountain, Scafell Pike.
– The National Park includes 26 miles of coastline and estuaries.
– In 2017, the Lake District was recognised as a World Heritage Site by Unesco, placing it in importance alongside the Taj Mahal, Grand Canyon, the Great Barrier Reef and the Tower of London.
– It was an inspiration for some of the country’s most beloved writers including Beatrix Potter, who owned Hill Top Farm, plus poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and John Ruskin.
– When the author of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, visited at the beginning of the 18th century, he described a terrifying place; wild, perilous and to be avoided.
– The Lakes also boasts sites of historical importance such as King Arthur’s Round Table, said by English Heritage to be a neolithic earthwork henge believed to be the legendary monarch’s jousting arena.