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A fell ( from Old Norse " fell ", " fjall ", " mountain ") is a high and barren landscape feature , such as a mountain range or moor - covered hills . The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia , the ___MASK52___ of Man , parts of Northern England , and Scotland . A river is a natural flowing watercourse , usually freshwater , flowing towards an ocean , ___MASK32___ , lake or another river . In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water . Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream , creek , brook , rivulet , and rill . There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features , although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size . Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location ; examples are " run " in some parts of the United States , " burn " in Scotland and northeast England , and " beck " in northern England . Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek , but not always : the language is vague . A County town is usually the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county , or it has been established over time as the " de facto " ___MASK25___ town of a county . The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration or county hall is based . In fact , many county towns are no longer part of the administrative county . For example , Nottingham is administered by a unitary authority entirely separate from the rest of Nottinghamshire . Many county towns are classified as cities , but all are referred to as county towns regardless of whether city status is held or not . A ___MASK32___ is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land . More broadly , " the ___MASK32___ " is the interconnected system of Earth ' s salty , oceanic waters  considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions . The ___MASK32___ moderates Earth ' s climate and has important roles in the water cycle , carbon cycle , and nitrogen cycle . Although the ___MASK32___ has been traveled and explored since prehistory , the modern scientific study of the ___MASK32___  oceanography  dates broadly to the British " Challenger " expedition of the 1870s . The ___MASK32___ is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections  including the International Hydrographic Organization ' s four named oceans ( the Atlantic , Pacific , Indian , and Arctic ) and the ___MASK63___ ; smaller , second - order sections , such as the Mediterranean , are known as " seas ". The ___MASK52___ of Walney , also known as Walney Island , is an island off the west coast of England , at the western end of Morecambe Bay . It forms part of the town of Barrow - in - Furness , and it is separated from mainland Barrow by Walney Channel , a narrow channel which is spanned by the Jubilee Bridge . Walney is the largest island of the Furness Islands group , both in population and size , as well as the largest English island in the ___MASK69___ . Its population at the 2011 UK Census was 10 , 651 , distributed evenly across the island ' s two Wards of Walney North and Walney South . The Lake District , also known as the Lakes or Lakeland , is a mountainous region in North - West England . A popular holiday destination , it is famous for its lakes , forests and mountains ( or " fells ") and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets . Barrow - in - Furness (; commonly known as Barrow ) is a town and borough in Cumbria , North West England . Historically part of Lancashire , it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with adjacent districts in 1974 to form the Borough of Barrow - in - Furness . At the tip of the Furness peninsula , close to the Lake District , it is bordered by Morecambe Bay , the Duddon Estuary and the ___MASK69___ . In 2011 , Barrow ' s population was 57 , 000 , the second largest urban area in Cumbria after Carlisle . Natives of Barrow , as well as the local dialect , are known as Barrovian . Furness is an area of Cumbria in northwestern England . Together with Cartmel it forms North Lonsdale , which was historically an exclave of Lancashire . The region may be split into two areas : Low Furness and High Furness . The former consists of the headland bounded on west by the Duddon estuary and on the east by Morecambe Bay , while the latter extends inland into the Lake District and contains the Furness Fells . Off the southern tip of Low Furness is Walney Island , eighteen kilometers in length , as well as several smaller islands . Cumbria (; locally ) is a non - metropolitan county in North West England . The county and Cumbria County Council , its local government , came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972 . Cumbria ' s county town is Carlisle , in the north of the county , and the only other major urban area is Barrow - in - Furness on the southwestern tip of the county . An ocean ( the ___MASK32___ of classical antiquity ) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet ' s hydrosphere . On Earth , an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean , which covers almost 71 % of its surface . These are , in descending order by area , the Pacific , Atlantic , Indian , Southern ( Antarctic ), and Arctic Oceans . The word " ___MASK32___ " is often used interchangeably with " ocean " in American English but , strictly speaking , a ___MASK32___ is a body of saline water ( generally a division of the world ocean ) partly or fully enclosed by land . The River Eea ( / i / ) is a small river in the Lake District , Cumbria , England running through the Furness region , which was once part of Lancashire . The River Eea is a relatively short system that arises from numerous small becks and streams throughout the Cartmel Valley . Its course is approximately 10 km long and the mouth is on Sand Gate marshes near Flookburgh , between Barrow and Kendal . It principally flows in a south - westerly direction . Lancashire (; archaically the County Palatine of Lancaster ; abbreviated Lancs .) is a non - metropolitan ceremonial county in north west England . The county town is Lancaster although the county ' s administrative centre is Preston . The county has a population of 1 , 449 , 300 and an area of . People from Lancashire are known as Lancastrians .