INCREDIBLE CUMBRIA
Cumbria Interesting Facts
The Lake District National Park is England’s largest and covers:
- 2362 square kilometres
- 912 square miles
- 583,747 acres or
- 236,234 hectares

Ten highest mountains
- Scafell Pike at 978 metres (3210 feet)
- Scafell at 964 metres (3162 feet)
- Helvellyn at 950 metres (3114 feet)
- Skiddaw at 931 metres(3053 feet)
- Great End at 910 metres (2986 feet)
- Bowfell at 902 metres (2940 feet)
- Great Gable at 899 metres (2960 feet)
- Pillar at 892 metres (2926 feet)
- Nethermost Pike at 891 metres (2923 feet)
- Catstycam (2917 feet)

Sixteen largest lakes
- Windermere – 14.8 square kilometres
- Ullswater – 8.9 square kilometres
- Derwentwater – 5.5 square kilometres
- Bassenthwaite Lake – 5.3 square kilometres
- Coniston Water – 4.0 square kilometres
- Haweswater – 3.9 square kilometres
- Thirlmere – 3.3 square kilometres
- Ennerdale Water – 3 square kilometres
- Wastwater – 2.9 square kilometres
- Crummock Water – 2.5 square kilometres
- Esthwaite Water – 1 square kilometre
- Buttermere – 0.9 square kilometres
- Grasmere – 0.6 square kilometres
- Loweswater – 0.6 square kilometres
- Rydal Water – 0.3 square kilometres
- Brotherswater – 0.2 square kilometres

Tarns
Tarn comes from the Old Norse word for ‘pool’. It usually refers to a small mountain lake or pool. However as some tarns are larger than lakes, it’s not an exact science! Here are some of the larger ones:
- Blea Tarn
- Little Langdale Tarn
- Overwater Tarn
- Stickle Tarn
- Tarn Hows
- Watendlath Tarn
- Yew Tree Tarn
Facts about lakes and coastline
- The deepest lake in England is Wastwater at 74 metres (243 feet)
- England’s longest lake is Windermere which is 10.5 miles long
- There is only one official lake – Bassenthwaite Lake. All the others are ‘meres’ or ‘waters’
- The National Park includes 26 miles of coastline and estuaries
- In the heavy rains of November 2009, Windermere lake rose 157cm. Over the week, that translates into an extra 35,700,000,000 litres. 22,100,000,000 litres of those were added in just 36 hours!