The Lake District is known for its lush green colour. It is an area which has been shaped through glacial action, and evidence of this can be seen in the u-shaped valleys which are a feature of the area. These contrast with the straight lines of valleys in Japan which have been formed through volcanic action. One of the most common pastimes is hill walking, which most people who visit the Lake District engage in.

The Lake District is also known as the home of Beatrix Potter, the author of Peter Rabbit. 

The Lake District was also home to William Wordsworth, the great English poet.

The Lake District is an area of outstanding beauty in England. It is also a national park, which is maintained by the National Trust, http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/

The National Trust was founded in 1895 by three Victorian philanthropists-Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. They were concerned about the impact of pollution and building, that is during the industrial revolution, they set up the Trust to act as a guardian for the nation in the acquisition and protection of threatened coastline, countryside and buildings. It also manages Looks after forests, woods, fens, farmland, downs, moorland, islands, archaeological remains, nature reserves, villages - for the British people.

More than a century later, we now cares for beautiful countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus almost 600 miles of coastline, and more than 200 buildings and gardens.

The National Trust is a charity, and is completely independent of Government, therefore relying heavily on the generosity its members (now numbering over 3 million) and other supporters.

Among the properties which the National Trust manages is Birk Howe, a 17th century farmhouse given to the National Trust by Beatrix Potter, who of course created Peter Rabbit.

The Lake District is also known for its lush green colour. It is an area which has been shaped through glacial action and evidence of this can be seen in the u-shaped valleys which, along with scarps, are a feature of the area. These contrast with the straight lines of valleys in Japan which have been formed through volcanic action. One of the most common pastimes is hill walking, which most people who visit the Lake District engage in.

The Lake District is also known for William Wordsworth, the great English poet. LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. As a student, Wordsworth secured a place at St John's College Cambridge. Even though his family wanted him to become a lawyer or a clergyman, however, William had no intention of doing what his family wanted. While at university he paid little attention to his studies and attacked the compulsory visits to the college chapel. In general, he spent his time at Cambridge getting into debt, violently disliking the system, and spending most of his time socializing. 

Throughout his education at Cambridge Wordsworth returned to Hawkshead in the Lake District for the holidays, and it was during his first trip back "home" from Cambridge when he began to write "An Evening Walk", the first poem he was to have published. During his final year at university, however, Wordsworth did not return to the Lake District, instead he and a university friend, Robert Jones, decided to go travelling in Europe. 
Wordsworth and Jones began their three month walking tour of France, Switzerland and northern Italy with £20 between them. Wordsworth didn’t let his family know where he was until he arrived in France. France was in the middle of Revolution when they arrived and they watched many of the celebrations, however, back then Wordsworth wasn’t really interested in politics and to him the highlight of the tour appeared to be Switzerland, an experience he later described in great detail when writing The Prelude. Wordsworth graduated in January 1791, he was awarded a poor degree with no honours, and he had no real idea as to how he was going to spend the rest of his life. He wrote to a friend saying: "I am doomed to be an idler through my whole life." In November 1791, after a couple of months of staying at various friends houses in London and Wales he decided to return to France, where he had spent such a happy summer in 1790, with the vague plan of mastering the French language and becoming an English tutor. After visiting France, Wordsworth teamed up with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, another famous British Poet.1797 is often referred to as "annus mirablilis" because of the work that Wordsworth and Coleridge began to produce. Coleridge and Wordsworth decided to publish their work to finance a trip to Germany. Upon their return from Germany in 1799 Dorothy and William decided to return to the Lake District, the first time for 10 years. They finally returned to Grasmere, near Ambleside, the place where William has decided he most wanted to live and to which he referred as: "the vale of my dreams". Dove Cottage. Dove Cottage in Grasmere was William Wordsworth's home from 1799 to 1808. Here Wordsworth wrote much of his poetry, and his sister Dorothy kept her famous journals. Dove Cottage was built in the early 17th Century and for over 170 years was an inn called the 'Dove and Olive'. It closed in 1793, and in 1799 Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved in. The Wordsworths had many visitors to Dove Cottage – Sir Walter Scott, Charles and Mary Lamb, and most of all Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Like many buildings in the Lake District, Dove Cottage is made from local stone with white, limewashed walls to keep out the damp. This building is an example of vernacular architecture, or local architecture. The roof has slate tiles, and the chimneys have arrangements of slates on them to help prevent smoke blowing back down. The downstairs rooms all have slate floors.