In the North Western side of the country of England lies and are filled with mountains, rivers and lakes. There are many lakes throughout the region, ponds and streams, and mountain ranges that rise well over nine hundred meters in four of the summits. This is the Lakes District. In the northern, eastern and southern regions of the Lakes there are lowlands where agriculture has played an important role in the livelihood and the economy of the various villages and towns for hundreds of years throughout history, right up through the modern times. Sheep herding the the dairy industry are also very important to the regions.
Beginning in the 1800′s this district was made famous by a few poets from the country who after spending time visiting in staying in a Lakes hotel, decided to move to the area to make it their homes. Of the most noted and famous of the group were Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth. These writers became known as the Lakes Poets and are credited for a school, Lake School of Poetry.
This area was formerly divided up into four different counties, of Westmorland, Cumberland, Yorkshire and Lancashire. In 1974 the counties were merged to create the one single county of Cumbira. The capital city of Cumbria, and the commercial, transportation and administrative center, as well as the manufacturing hub, is Carlisle. This city sits along the banks of the River Eden. The city, that was also designated in 1974 was previously a county borough, a rural county on the border of Scotland.
The Lakes is one of fourteen national parks in England. Until the 1800′s this area was basically wild and remote, some seeing them as dangerous and uncivilized. But the Lakes poets were Romantics, and they saw this untamed wilderness as their mode of inspiration. That idea, coupled with a growing interest in people in the 1900′s for outdoor activities, the physical and spiritual benefits of exercise, and a growing love of the outdoors found people heading to the region for exploration and hiking expeditions. The region still draws tourist and outdoor enthusiasts for this reason today.
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