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Lake District

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Locations Cumbria
England
Highest point Scafell Pike
Passes Honister Pass
Whinlatter Pass
Gatescarth Pass
Did you knowFilm director Ken Russell lived in the Keswick/Borrowdale area until 2007 and used it in films such as Tommy and Mahler.
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About Lake District


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, and its associations with William Wordsworth and other Lake Poets and also with Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin.

Water firm wrongly downgraded pollution events, documents suggest

Water firm wrongly downgraded pollution events, documents suggest
Dec 4,2023 1:01 am

... One of the apparent cover-ups was in a World Heritage Site in the Lake District...

Lancashire supermarket chain Booths ditches self-service tills

Lancashire supermarket chain Booths ditches self-service tills
Nov 9,2023 4:31 pm

... " We will retain self-checkouts in two of our stores in the Lake District in order to meet the needs of our customers during very busy periods...

New search technology leads to discovery of body in Glen Etive

New search technology leads to discovery of body in Glen Etive
Nov 3,2023 4:31 am

... The technology has been developed by Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association (LDSAMRA)...

Rescue mission for UK rainforests' weird treasures

Rescue mission for UK rainforests' weird treasures
Oct 20,2023 8:51 pm

... Pockets of temperate rainforest are found to the west of Scotland and north Wales, as well as in the Lake District and south-west England...

Wasdale mountain rescuer Penny Kirby celebrates 40 years' service

Wasdale mountain rescuer Penny Kirby celebrates 40 years' service
Sep 24,2023 5:31 am

... She lives in an old cottage in the foothills beneath the Lake District peak and totally understands the mountain s appeal to walkers and climbers...

Woman finds her 40-year-old message to dad in book bought online

Woman finds her 40-year-old message to dad in book bought online
Sep 19,2023 1:21 am

... Mrs Ford, who was brought up in the Lake District, told: " It was a book I thought about over the years, but I didn t recognise it at first because it had no desk cover...

Northern Lights: England's skies glow in aurora spectacle

Northern Lights: England's skies glow in aurora spectacle
Sep 13,2023 8:11 am

... The natural phenomenon was captured by photographers in the Lake District and in Northumberland on Tuesday evening...

Patterdale mountain rescuer injured in fall dies

Patterdale mountain rescuer injured in fall dies
Sep 9,2023 12:40 pm

... Chris Lewis, a member of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) in the Lake District, fell 500ft (150m) in 2021, severely damaging his spine...

New map of ancient trees an opportunity for conservation

Sep 3,2023 10:51 am

A new map shows there could be around two million Trees with exceptional environmental and cultural value previously unrecorded in England.

That's ten times as many as currently on official records.

This Tree -map is sounding a rare note of optimism in The conservation world.

But The Woodland Trust charity warns that these Trees - known as ancient or veteran specimens - have " almost no" legal protection.

It Comes after a centuries-old oak Tree was felled in Peterborough on Wednesday by The Council , Who Said it was causing " structural damage" to nearby homes.

The Bbc joined The Hunt for One of these ancient giants.

On The Ashton Court Estate near Bristol, we follow Steve Marsh from The Woodland Trust, fighting our way through brambles and rhododendrons, in The Hunt for The legendary Domesday Oak.

Instead we discover an ancient unnamed Tree - One The Trust has no record of. We take turns sitting Inside - The air is cool and still.

An ancient Tree is considered remarkably old for its age - They are sometimes known as " living archaeology".

They 're incredibly rich in wildlife - One ancient oak has more biodiversity than a thousand 100-year-old oaks.

And veteran Trees have The Features of an ancient specimen but are younger in age.

" It's that feeling you get when you see a really old cathedral or an Old Church and you think, imagine what The World was like Back Then , " Steve says, patting The gnarled wood.

The Tree is probably twice as old as St Paul's Cathedral, built in 1675, and as old as The Tower of London, he says.

Those buildings are protected, he explains, but The only reason this ancient Tree has survived is because it's in a park where landowners have looked after it, he suggests

" All of our old and most amazing Trees should have heritage status at least to protect them so that we can look after them and care for them in The Future , " he says.

It's exactly this type of hidden ancient that Dr Victoria Nolan, from The University of Nottingham, spent Four Years looking for.

After poring over existing records and tramping through The English countryside, it was " incredible" to establish there could be two million, she told me.

Her team used a computer model to predict where The Trees were likely to be. It looked at The layout of The landscape, habitat, but also distance from cities and human populations.

" At first we couldn't believe The results. The surprising bit for me was how They can be everywhere, in places where you wouldn't think an ancient Tree might be, " She Said .

Many are concentrated around London in The historic hunting parks and forests, as well as in The Lake District , Hereford and Northumberland.

Before their work, Tree records usually showed The places where scientists had gone to look for Trees , rather than where They might be.

" Now we show where They actually are in The Environment , " she explains.

But The results of her work are also " kind of scary".

" Our limited knowledge means those Trees are not protected at all currently. Depending on where these Trees are, anyone could go chop them down.

They 're being damaged, especially in a lot of agricultural landscapes. "

As biodiversity levels crash, these living beings are a Safe Haven for thousands of species.

And their respiration also helps to cool a heating climate. They also contain history and Memory - They help us to dream and imagine.

Now, armed with this new map of Old Trees , scientists like Victoria and The rest of us could help to keep more of them alive.

The study is published in The scientific journal Ecological Applications.



Source of news: bbc.com

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