The English Lake District
In the county of Cumbria (formerly the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland) in the northwest of England lies a area of pristine beauty. A region of rugged peaks and cold lakes and tarns, is has been (and still is) the home of some of England's finest writers and poets. Wordsworth wrote some of his best known poems in Grasmere, Beatrix Potter lived close to Windermere, Arthur Ransom, the author of Swallows and Amazons and a long series of young people's sailing books still lives in the Lake District. This is a climbing, hiking and birding center, a remaining refuge for the golden eagle and the red deer that can still be occasionally seen. It's also a mecca for painters and photographers in all four seasons.
Here at Buttermere Lake,the trees disappeared from the slopes hundreds of years ago. Now they are largely home to sheep that wander year-round through the bracken. Buttermere is one of scores of lakes and smaller "tarns" that are scattered over the Lake District. Trails wind over the hills connecting small towns and villages, that can become quite isolated when the winter snows arrive.
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