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  Lake District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lakes, as the region is also called, were made famous during the early 19th century by the poetry and writings of William Wordsworth.
The Lake District is only about 55 km (34 miles) across (north-to-south or west-to-east), but manages to pack into that relatively small area a wide variety of scenery, dominated by various formations left over by the last ice age.
The Lake District is intimately associated with the history of English literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_District   (2406 words)

  
 LAKE DISTRICT - LoveToKnow Article on LAKE DISTRICT
These two lakes are in a class apart from all the rest, being broader for their length, and quite shallow (about 18 ft. average and 70 ft. maximum), as distinct from the long, narrow and deep troughs occupied by the other chief lakes, which average from 40 to 135 ft. deep.
This lake collects waters by the Brathay from Langdale, the head of which, between Bow Fell and Langdale Pikes (240, ft.), is very fine; and by the Rothay from Dunmail Raise and the small lakes of Grasmere and Rydal Water, embowered in woods.
The principal centres in the Lake District are Keswick (Derwentwater), Ambleside, Bowness, Windermere and Lakeside (Windermere), Coniston and Boot (Eskdale), all of which, except Ambleside and Bowness (which nearly joins Windermere) are accessible by rail.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAKE_DISTRICT.htm   (1822 words)

  
 Pillar (Lake District) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pillar is a fell in the Western part of the English Lake District.
It is situated between the valleys of Ennerdale to the north and Wasdale to the south, and is the highest point of the Pillar group (some dozen fells clustered round it).
At 2,926 feet it is the eighth highest mountain in the Lake District and one of the most difficult to climb.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pillar_(Lake_District)   (198 words)

  
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www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/pillar.html   (173 words)

  
 Climbing Lake District and Cumbria
The English Lake District is the home of rock climbing which is unique and spectacular from the high mountain crags down to the crags in the valleys.
Climbing in the Lakes is very popular due to the fact it's ease of accessibility and the climbing within the area, ranging from V Diff [Very Difficult] to the more strenuous Extremes Climbs [E+] challenges the Lake District has to offer the beginner and the experience rock climber.
Climbing in the Lake District began over hundred and twenty [120] years ago from The Wasdale Head Inn, in a remote valley known as Wasdale Valley and is also one of the most beautiful valleys of the beaten track in the Lakes.
www.lakedistrictletsgo.co.uk /activities/climbing/climbing_main.shtml   (712 words)

  
 Best Walks - Walking Lake District
Lake District Walks (Fold Out Books) Brian Conduit -As part of a series of regional walks, this text provides maps which fold out to double the size of the book.
A Walk Around the Lakes, Hunter Davies - Based on Davies' experiences in the Lake District over one year, this book has many recommendations for the visitor, but it is also an exploration of the past, examining the many famous people associated with the District, in particular the Lake Poets Coleridge, De Quincey and Wordsworth.
Lake District Walking Map - A colour walking map of the Lake District that includes layer tints, contour lines and spot heights to give an accurate indication of the rise and fall of the ground.
www.bestwalks.com /lakedistrictbooks.htm   (4237 words)

  
 Lake District High Fells - Special Area of Conservation - SAC
Lake District High Fells has many upland tarns throughout, representing the habitat type in the uplands of north-west England.
Lake District High Fells is representative of wet heath in the uplands of north-west England.
Pillar and Ennerdale Fells is bryophyte-rich with a number of oceanic species present including Anastrepta orcadensis, Herbertus aduncus, Bazzania tricrenata, Lepidozia pearsonii and Ptilidium ciliare in higher altitude dry heath.
www.jncc.gov.uk /protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUCode=UK0012960   (2185 words)

  
 Needle Sports - Lake District Weather
Planning a climbing day out in the Lakes can be a frustrating (not to mention money-wasting) experience if you fail to "sync" with the weather.
The Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association is the umbrella body for the 13 mountain rescue teams in Cumbria (UK), and gives links to all those with websites.
The Lake District National Park Authority website is a fund of useful information...
www.needlesports.com /advice/weatherlakes.htm   (439 words)

  
 hotel in grasmere the lake district - bridge house hotel - haystacks
It may not be one of the Lake District's biggest fells but it has astonishing views from all sides, rocky outcrops and crags, several small tarns, and, in July and August it is covered in purple heather.
This most splendid of Lake District crag-faces is rarely seen, but opens up past Blackbeck Tarn and is a conspicuous feature from Fleetwith Pike.
After the ice age (around 11,000 years ago) they were one large lake, but silt brought down off the fells in years of Lakeland rain have built up a flat marshy land between them.
www.bridgehousegrasmere.co.uk /haystacks.htm   (1311 words)

  
 Ennerdale Water, The Lake District, Cumbria at UK-Images.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is impossible to approach this lake by road except from the west, and it is the most westerly of all the lakes.
Near the west end of the lake is a large car park, from where you must proceed on foot up the dale which stretches south-east for about 8 miles and near its head Black Sail Pass leads to the south-west into Wasdale for Wastwater.
On the south-west side is the Pillar group of peaks with the formidable-looking Pillar Rock dominating the view of precipices; Pillar itself is higher (2,927ft) and further back.
www.uk-images.com /ennerdale.shtml   (481 words)

  
 EDINBURGH - Online Information article about EDINBURGH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Harrison Park is a breathing spot for the congested district of Fountainbridge, and the park at Saughton Hall, opened in 1905, for the western district of the city.
The parish church contains the tombs of the Forresters, of old the leading family of the district, with full-length sculptured figures, and at the base of Corstorphine Hillfrom one point of which (" Rest and be Thankful ") is to be had one of the best views of Edinburghare the seats of several well-known families.
The parish church, effectively situated on an eminence by the side of the lake, was the scene of the ministration of the Rev. John Thomson (1778-1840), the landscape painter, who numbered Sir Walter Scott among his elders.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /ECG_EMS/EDINBURGH.html   (9513 words)

  
 Lake District - Walking Britain
No description of the Lake District would be complete without a mention of one its greatest advocates - A. Wainwright.
Great Gable, Pillar and the High Stile are all well known and form the basis of this interesting area.
Not to be forgotten is the wildly beautiful Nan Bield Pass - one of the scenic gems of the Lake District.
www.walkingbritain.co.uk /regions/lakes.shtml   (894 words)

  
 Cumbria - The Lake District:Pillar from Wasdale
The most famous mountain of this group is of course Pillar with its historic ties to the birth of rock climbing on its subsidiary top Pillar Rock.
From Scoat Fell the route lies NE along the main ridge to Pillar passing the col at Wind Gap.
The summit of Pillar is flat so to appreciate the best of the views you need to walk around it perimeter.
www.lakedistrictoutdoors.co.uk /routes/routeprint.cfm?RouteID=94   (447 words)

  
 Recollections of a holiday:
The Lake District lies in the northwest corner of England, butting up against coastline to the west, and the border with Scotland to the north.
We hikers are more interested in peaks, but the peaks of the Lake District are unlike the difficult, forested peaks of our Canadian home terrain: these are open, treeless, grassy   ridges, over which even the average walker can ramble for miles and gain spectacular views in all directions.
If the water was two feet deeper there would be only one continuous lake, but a low green pasture about quarter of a mile square divides the northernmost and larger of these—Crummock Water, about four miles in length—from Buttermere which is about two miles long.
www3.telus.net /FownesWalker/Hiking/MnRLkDist.htm   (2948 words)

  
 Walks in The Lake District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Walks in The Lake District - a detailed directory of over 2,500 places of: where to stay, where to eat, where to drink, what to do, events and attractions.
The Lake District has many unique characteristics which have made it so popular with tourists and walker alike for over 100 years: the tranquil splendour of its incomparable lakes; the majestic grandeur of its rugged mountains and fells; its green pastures and peaceful dales; and its lonely tarns and mountain passes.
The walks are mainly concentrated in The Lake District itself, but the site also covers walks from Arnside in Morecambe Bay to the South, up to Silloth on the Solway Firth in the North, and over to the Howgills and Appleby-in-Westmorland in the East.
www.lakeswalks.co.uk /walks/walk11   (415 words)

  
 SHUSWAP TOURISM - Columbia Shuswap Regional District - CSRD
The Pillar is located on the east side of the road just south of Pillar Lake Lodge.
The Pillar is a large column of eroded rock and clay, 90 feet high and capped with a flat rock.
Follow the trail east to Pement Lake about 2 km on the right fork or to Bryden another 1.5 km on the left fork.
www.shuswap.bc.ca /Hiking.htm   (3248 words)

  
 FRCC Guidebooks & Publications - Lake District Rock
This new FRCC guidebook takes the best rock climbs in the English Lake District and presents them in a fresh new format.
Lake District Rock has won the Titus Wilson Prize for guidebooks in the prestigious Lakeland Book of the year Awards 2004 hosted by the Cumbria Tourist Board and Hunter Davies.
The award is very apt, as the late Oliver Turnbull, for many years owner of Titus Wilson's Printers and Publishers of Kendal, took the photo of the Editor on Eliminate A on Dow Crag (p114) and also appears (anonymously) as the figure admiring the sun setting over Wasdale on page 21.
www.frcc.co.uk /publications/selected.htm   (220 words)

  
 pillar Resources - FREE
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 Primary Triangulation Pillars
The UK network of concrete pillar triangulation points was built and measured between 1936 and 1962 by the Ordnance Survey, for a project known as the Retriangulation of Great Britain.
Some of the pillars may have been moved, removed or you may need the landowners permission to visit them.
Some of the pillars are still in use as Passive GPS Stations, maintained by the Ordnance Survey.
www.36haroldstreet.freeserve.co.uk /trigpoints.htm   (358 words)

  
 Wasdale - home of the Lake District's best mountains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The most imposing cliffs in the Lake District can be seen here while the stature of the mountains compares well with those summits in the Western Highlands of Scotland.
From the Pillar end, the ascent is either through a steep scrambly gully that is often loose and or up a ridge negotiating some scrambly outcrops.
Pillar, the next big mountain, has a very impressive face overlooking the Ennerdale valley.
cgi.mountaineer.plus.com /england-wales/wasdale   (722 words)

  
 Wasdale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wasdale is one of the most remote and wonderful corners of the Lake District.
The highest peak on the North side of Wasdale is Pillar (892m); this can be climbed during a circuit of Mosedale talking in Yewbarrow, Red Pike and Scoat Fell.
The "Slab and Notch" route on Pillar Rock is an excellent grade 3 scramble, and is not for vertigo sufferers as Ennerdale is several hundered metres below.
chezphil.org /hiking/wasdale.html   (388 words)

  
 Wainwrights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is located within the Lake District National Park in Cumbria.
It is sometimes confused with the neighbouring Sca Fell, to which it is connected by the pass of Mickledore.
Scafell Pike consists of igneous rock dating from the Ordovician period, and is geology part of the Borrowdale Volcanics.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Wainwrights   (308 words)

  
 Lakeland Landscape - Lake District Sponsored Walk
Lake District Walk in association with AMUR - preserving leopards and tigers in the wild
On June 5th 2004, one of our photographers, Michael Sayles, and his father, Philip, will embark upon an epic walk around the Lake District.
Beginning at Coniston, the walk will see the pair scale all 56 of the Lake District mountains that exceed 2500 feet in height, and will cover a distance of over 120 miles, before ending in Staveley around a week later.
www.lakelandscape.co.uk /lakeswalk.htm   (360 words)

  
 pillar Resources - FREE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Actually the well-known pillars of the faith in the Alexandrian hierarchy were both graduates of the Catechetical School, Athanasius the Apostolic and Cyril the Great.
An illiterate twenty-year-old Christian at the village of Coma in the district of Heracleopolis in Middle Egypt, Anthony heard it said one day in church: "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven" [Matthew 19:21].
His companions, a legionary named Felix, his sister Regula, and a third called Exuperantius hid themselves in the dreary wastes of the land of Glarus and ultimately reached the lake of Zurich, where they baptized converts until they were seized by the emperor's men and led before Decius, the Roman governor of the region.
www.coptic.net /articles/CoptsAndChristendom.txt   (10614 words)

  
 Edgypix royalty-free photos of Lake District woodland and trees
Pictures of trees, woods and forest in the English Lake District national park, an area of outstanding beauty in the north-west of England which is understandably popular with walkers, hikers and mountaineers.
Logging in Ennerdale Forest in the English Lake District: a pile of stripped treetrunks waiting in the summer sun for transport
Woodland on the shore of Derwentwater, from the Cat Bells ridge, in the English Lake District
www.edgypix.com /cats/ld001.html   (276 words)

  
 page1
Blue Lake is located in a disused but now much visited slate quarry overlooking the stunningly beautiful Mawddach estuary on the coastal end of the Cadair Idris massif.
Llyn Arran is the smallest of the Cadair lakes.
The lake of Llyn Gadair is situated in a Cwm under the towering cliffs of Penygadair.
www.ian.kirkpatrick2.btinternet.co.uk /page1.htm   (10131 words)

  
 Minerals. Type localities of Utah
(UO Description: rabbittite occurs as efflorescence on a pillar of high-grade uranium ore. The crystals are pale-green, silky, and resemble bent and twisted talc crystals.
rabbittite was collected from a pillar of pitchblende and other uranium mineral near the portal.
Location: Tinticite was found during a study of hidden ore bodies in the Tintic Mining District in 1944.
www.rocks4u.com /utahminerals.htm   (8222 words)

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