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The English Lakes

A Photographic Guide of the Cumbrian Lake District
This new project is bringing together a collection of photos for anyone to use. This also includes articles and galleries. 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.

We are looking for contributors to help out by uploading photos or writing about places from our wanted articles list. This site is a tool that allows anyone to do just that. Uploading your Lake District photos, writing about your favourite places or simply editing existing pages really does help to make this a useful resource for all. Interested? Have a look at our The English Lakes:Helping out page for more details.


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Loughrigg Tarn from Loughrigg Fell, near Elter Water


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. There is always something interesting to photograph in the beautiful Lake District, and here we share them for all.

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


Featured Images


Latest articles

Article pages: These have recently been written, some requiring further editing and some are missing photos.

  1. Nab Scar
  2. Alcock Tarn/Photo gallery
  3. Slater's Bridge
  4. Explore map of bridges
  5. Explore photo map of the lakes
  6. Watendlath Tarn
  7. Explore map of the tarns
  8. Blea Tarn (Watendlath)
  9. Dock Tarn
  10. St. Herbert's Island

Feel free to edit and improve these articles.

Latest categories

Categories: These are the most active categories where photos have been uploaded.

  1. Category:Tarns of the Lake District
  2. Category:Bowder Stone
  3. Category:Hodge Close Quarry
  4. Category:Loughrigg Tarn
  5. Category:Derwentwater
  6. Category:Elter Water
  7. Category:Photographs by subject

There are multiple projects on the go, whether its uploading photos from previous walks or writing about the subjects of those photos. Below are the latest upload categories and articles.


Recent Article

The Bowder Stone, also known as Bowderstone, is a natural wonder in its own right and a popular, highly photographed visitor attraction. Owned and in the care of the National Trust, this huge chunk of green-grey andesite lava, 18 metres long by 8.18 metres high, and weighing approximately 1273 tonnes, is believed to have fallen from Bowder Crag above its current position as a result of a massive rock failure where thousands of rocks tumbled down the slope below the crag. The evidence of this is provided by the rock type of the boulder itself, the rock type of Bowder Crag and the distinctive structural, cross-sectional features on both, which show they are an exact match. This suggests that the boulder, without doubt, came from the crag above. (read more)


Reach out to us

If you have any questions about the project, you can leave a message on the contact us page or reach out to me on my talk page with any queries you may have. I promise to get back to you as quickly as I can. Alternatively, if you have just spotted any errors and omissions, would like to create new pages or simply edit some existing ones, you can do so by clicking on the "edit" tab and off you go.

Look forward to seeing you around.

The English Lakes



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