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Alfred ___MASK61___ (" A . W .") MBE ( 17 January 1907  20 January 1991 ) was a British fellwalker , guidebook author and illustrator . His seven - volume " Pictorial Guide to the ___MASK79___ Fells ", published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely ___MASK68___ reproductions ___MASK68___ his manuscript , has become the standard reference work to 214 ___MASK68___ the fells ___MASK68___ the English Lake District . Among his 40 - odd other books is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk , a 192 - mile long - distance footpath devised by ___MASK61___ which remains popular today . The ___MASK30___ , also known as the ___MASK16___ or Lakeland , is a mountainous region in North - West England . A popular holiday destination , it is famous for its ___MASK16___ , forests and mountains ( or " fells ") and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets . A ribbon lake is a long and narrow , finger - shaped lake , usually found in a glacial trough . Its formation begins when a glacier moves over an area containing alternate bands ___MASK68___ hard and soft bedrock . The sharp - edged boulders that are picked up by the glacier and carried at the bottom ___MASK68___ the glacier erode the softer rock more quickly by abrasion , thus creating a hollow called a rock basin . On either side ___MASK68___ the rock basin , the more resistant rock is eroded less and these outcrops ___MASK68___ harder rock are known as rock bars , which act as dams between which rainwater may accumulate after the retreat ___MASK68___ the ice age , filling up the rock basin and creating a ribbon lake . The ___MASK28___ and Windermere Railway is a railway in ___MASK31___ in north - west England . It was built as a railway from the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at Oxenholme via ___MASK28___ to near Windermere , opening fully in April 1847 . The engineer was Joseph Locke and the partnership of contractors consisted of Thomas Brassey , William Mackenzie , Robert Stephenson and George Heald . It remains open , albeit in much simplified form , as the Windermere Branch Line . ___MASK31___ (; locally ) is a non - metropolitan county in North West England . The county and ___MASK31___ County Council , its local government , came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972 . ___MASK31___ ' 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 . ___MASK21___ is a country that is part ___MASK68___ the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish Sea lies northwest ___MASK68___ ___MASK21___ and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest . ___MASK21___ is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths ___MASK68___ the island ___MASK68___ Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles ___MASK68___ Scilly , and the Isle ___MASK68___ Wight . The Outlying Fells ___MASK68___ Lakeland is a book written by Alfred Wainwright , dealing with hills in and around the Lake District ___MASK68___ England . It differs from Wainwright ' s " Pictorial Guides " in that each ___MASK68___ its 56 chapters describes a walk , sometimes taking in several summits , rather than a single fell . This has caused some confusion on the part ___MASK68___ authors attempting to prepare a definitive list ___MASK68___ peaks . The Outlying Fells do not form part ___MASK68___ the 214 hills generally accepted as making up the Wainwrights , but they are included in Category 2B ___MASK68___ the Hill Walkers Register maintained by the Long Distance Walkers Association . William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770  23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who , with Samuel ___MASK83___ Coleridge , helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication " Lyrical Ballads " ( 1798 ). Westmorland ( formerly also spelt " Westmoreland "; even older spellings are " Westmerland " and " Westmereland ") is an area ___MASK68___ North West England and one ___MASK68___ the 39 historic counties ___MASK68___ England . It formed an administrative county from 1889 to 1974 , after which the whole county was administered by the new administrative county ___MASK68___ ___MASK31___ . In 2013 , Secretary ___MASK68___ State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles formally recognised and acknowledged the continued existence ___MASK68___ England ' s 39 historic counties , including Westmorland . An interglacial period ( or alternatively interglacial , interglaciation ) is a geological interval ___MASK68___ warmer global average temperature lasting thousands ___MASK68___ years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age . The current Holocene interglacial began at the end ___MASK68___ the Pleistocene , about 11 , 700 years ago . ___MASK14___ (; archaically the County Palatine ___MASK68___ 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 ___MASK68___ 1 , 449 , 300 and an area ___MASK68___ . People from ___MASK14___ are known as Lancastrians . Windermere is the largest natural lake in ___MASK21___ . It is a ribbon lake formed in a glacial trough after the retreat ___MASK68___ ice at the start ___MASK68___ the current interglacial period . It has been one ___MASK68___ the country ' s most popular places for holidays and summer homes since the arrival ___MASK68___ the ___MASK28___ and Windermere Railway ' s branch line in 1847 . Historically forming part ___MASK68___ the border between Lancashire and Westmorland , it is now within the county ___MASK68___ ___MASK31___ and the Lake District National Park . Orrest Head is a ___MASK36___ in the English ___MASK30___ on the eastern shores ___MASK68___ Windermere . It is the subject ___MASK68___ a chapter in Wainwright ' s The Outlying Fells ___MASK68___ Lakeland , and the first fell he climbed . He describes it as `` our first ascent in Lakeland , our first sight ___MASK68___ mountains in tumultuous array across glittering waters , our awakening to beauty '' and also as `` a fitting finale , too , to a life made happy by fellwandering '' . On the summit is a panorama naming the key visible fells which include the Old Man ___MASK68___ Coniston , Scafell Pike , Great Gable , Fairfield and the Langdale Pikes . Orrest Head is typically climbed directly from the town ___MASK68___ Windermere near the station . Access is made via a road which reaches most ___MASK68___ the way to the summit . The Lake Poets were a group ___MASK68___ English poets who all lived in the Lake District ___MASK68___ England , United Kingdom , at the turn ___MASK68___ the nineteenth century . As a group , they followed no single " school " ___MASK68___ thought or literary practice then known . They were named , only to be uniformly disparaged , by the " Edinburgh Review ". They are considered part ___MASK68___ the Romantic Movement . A fell ( from Old Norse " fell ", " fjall ", " ___MASK9___ ") is a high and barren landscape feature , such as a ___MASK9___ range or moor - covered hills . The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia , the Isle ___MASK68___ Man , parts ___MASK68___ ___MASK76___ England , and Scotland .