How much do you know about the Lake District?

England’s largest National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But how much do you know about it?

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1. At 18km, what is the Lake District’s largest body of water?

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2. Which Victorian cook invented Grasmere Gingerbread?

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3. What is the name of this Roman fort, which is now an English Heritage site?

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4. What is the name of this 978m high mountain?

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5. What is the Lake District – and England’s – deepest lake?

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6. Who or what is the village of Patterdale named after?

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7. The Lake District’s highest pass, Kirkstone Pass, runs between Windermere and Ullswater. What’s it named after?

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8. What is the name of the Lake District’s tallest waterfall?

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9. Who lived in Cockermouth and Grasmere, and wrote poems inspired by the Lake District?

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10. Built it 1813, Moot Hall has been a market, courthouse, town hall, place of worship, museum and a prison. Where is it?

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11. This Neolithic circle is made up of 38 stones. What’s it called?

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12. What is the name of the island that is roughly in the middle of Derwentwater?

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13. The ashes of the guidebook author Alfred Wainwright are scattered on his favourite hill, Haystacks. Which lake is it closest to?

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14. Which town or village is Stock Ghyll waterfall closest to?

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15. What is the name of this cave?

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16. The children’s author Beatrix Potter spent her holidays in the Lake District. In which village can you now visit The World of Beatrix Potter?

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