Visiting Britain’s National Parks – The Lake District

Whether you’re thinking of visiting Britain this year or like me, you’re a local thinking of staying at home, Cumbria’s Lake District National Park offers scenery rarely surpassed elsewhere in Europe. The region, established as a National Park in 1951, is known for its distinctive landscape of greystone farmhouses, lakes and rugged mountains known here as fells – a word derived from the time of the Vikings.