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| visitation_year = 2011 | free_type = | free = | free1_type = | free1 = | map = Lake District National Park UK location map.svg | map_locator_x = | map_locator_y = | map_size = | map_caption = | map_first = | website = }} The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains (or ''fells'') and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets. Historically split between Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, the Lake District is now entirely in Cumbria. All the land in England higher than above sea level lies within the National Park, including Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. It also contains the deepest and longest lakes in England, Wastwater and Windermere. == Lake District National Park == The Lake District National Park includes nearly all of the Lake District, though the town of Kendal and the Lakeland Peninsulas are currently outside the park boundary. The area, which was designated a national park on 9 May 1951 (less than a month after the first UK national park designation — the Peak District), is the most visited national park in the United Kingdom with 15.8 million annual visitors and more than 23 million annual day visits,〔 the largest of the thirteen national parks in England and Wales, and the second largest in the UK after the Cairngorms. Its aim is to protect the landscape by restricting unwelcome change by industry or commerce. Most of the land in the park is in private ownership, with about 55% registered as agricultural land. Landowners include: * Individual farmers and other private landowners, with more than half of the agricultural land farmed by the owners.〔(The state of farming and land management in the Lake District. )〕 *The National Trust owns about a quarter of the total area (including some lakes and land of significant landscape value). * The Forestry Commission and other investors in forests and woodland. 〔(Forestry Commission Cumbria. )〕 *United Utilities owns 8% * Lake District National Park Authority (3.9%) The National Park Authority is based at offices in Kendal. It runs a visitor centre on Windermere at a former country house called Brockhole,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Brockhole )〕 (Coniston Boating Centre ) and Information Centres. It is reducing its landholding.〔(Lake District woods and valleys up for sale... ) Mail Online〕 In common with all other national parks in England, there is no restriction on entry to, or movement within the park along public routes, but access to cultivated land is usually restricted to public footpaths, bridleways and byways. Much of the uncultivated land has statutory open access rights - which cover around 50% of the park. The lakes and mountains combine to form impressive scenery. Farmland and settlement add aesthetic value to the natural scenery with an ecology modified by human influence for millennia and including important wildlife habitats. The Lake District has failed to be approved as a natural World Heritage Site, because of human activities, such as commercial forestry, which have adversely impacted the park's assessment. Another bid is being prepared for World Heritage Status, this time in the category of cultural landscape.〔(Lake District National Park - World Heritage Inscription for the Lake District ). Lakeswhs.co.uk. Retrieved on 2014-04-12.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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