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  What is The English Lakes?  This new project will bring together a broad collection of photos for anyone to use. This will include articles and galleries too. You are welcome to use any of the photos and articles providing proper attribution is given under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

This is not a solo project. Anyone can upload their own photos or write about a fell walk they have enjoyed and always wanted to share with others. This site is a tool that allows anyone to do just that.

By uploading your Lake District photos, writing about your favourite walks or simply editing existing pages really does help to make this a useful resource for all.



This stunning National Park lies within the county of Cumbria, in the north-west region bordered by Scotland to the north, Northumberland, County Durham and Yorkshire to the East, and Lancashire to the south. It contains some of the most dramatic and scenic views in England, ranging from wide open arable land to the vast array of lakes, tarns and fells, of which Scafell Pike (pronounced Scaw-full) is the highest. There is always something interesting to capture in the Lake District.

Learn more about this project's aims and goals here.  What is The English Lakes?  This new project will bring together a broad collection of photos for anyone to use. This will include articles and galleries too. You are welcome to use any of the photos and articles providing proper attribution is given under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

This is not a solo project. Anyone can upload their own photos or write about a fell walk they have enjoyed and always wanted to share with others. This site is a tool that allows anyone to do just that.

By uploading your Lake District photos, writing about your favourite walks or simply editing existing pages really does help to make this a useful resource for all.



This stunning National Park lies within the county of Cumbria, in the north-west region bordered by Scotland to the north, Northumberland, County Durham and Yorkshire to the East, and Lancashire to the south. It contains some of the most dramatic and scenic views in England, ranging from wide open arable land to the vast array of lakes, tarns and fells, of which Scafell Pike (pronounced Scaw-full) is the highest. There is always something interesting to capture in the Lake District.

Learn more about this project's aims and goals here.

After leaving Friar's Crag and continuing along the waymarked path (clockwise), the view opens out onto this curved beach. There can be remnants of previous water levels when driftwood and other debris is left scattered across the beach as high as the grass (not seen in this photo). This proves how volatile the weather can be, with strong winds and waves battering the shoreline. In this image though, there is no evidence of that ever happening, with its calm serenity in the reflective water; a very different world indeed.

You can see across Strandshag Bay towards the hump of trees that is Lord's Island. This island got its name from the Earls of Derwentwater who lived there from the mid 15th century. There was a grand house with a drawbridge but no evidence of this can be seen in this photo.

The undisturbed water is absolutely crystal clear, and on a sunny day so are the views across Derwentwater towards Cat Bells (451m) and Maiden Moor (575m) centre-right. However, even when the weather is not clement, and the light be dark and moody, as it so often can be in the lakes, the scene is still just as striking. I have seen storm clouds quickly roll across the fells with rain so heavy you cannot see the other side of the lake.