• England's Largest This storybook realm of hills, stonewalled fields, forests, whitewashed cottages, and clear waters is England’s largest national park. In fact, the Lake District covers about one ...

In England’s Lake District, nature rules and humanity keeps a wide-eyed but low profile. At just about 30 miles long and 30 miles wide, the region is a lush, green playground for hikers and poets ...

If you were totally ignorant of England’s geography and new to its national parks, you’d probably first head for the Peak District in search of its tallest mountains. You’d find relatively nice hills ...

Rain pelted the old sash windows like bullets as we sat by the fire at the 17th-century Burnthwaite Farm in Wasdale, a remote valley in northwest England. My wife, Katy, and I sought to complete the ...

One of England's tallest mountains is also one of its most dangerous. However treacherous, you can safely hike it if you take the right precautions.

England may not be known for sky-piercing peaks, but its mountains still command awe, especially in the dramatic landscapes of the Lake District. While the country's highest summits fall short of ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. The village of Grasmere literally straddles the River Rothay in the middle of northwest England’s Lake District and figuratively the perilous line ...

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It’s undoubtedly Britain’s equivalent to our Queenstown Lakes district. Windermere and the Lake District is England’s favourite national park, a sprawling tourist honeypot that stretches across ...

Located in northwest England, the English Lake District is a mountainous area, whose valleys have been modelled by glaciers in the Ice Age and subsequently shaped by an agro-pastoral land-use system ...