English Lake District Daily Briefing for Monday 7th April 2008
Updated on Sunday at 8.00pm
Sunday's Lake District Pictures
Wetherlam seen from the Silverthwaite car park, Skelwith Bridge [6/4/2008 by Tony Richards]
Saturday's Lake District Pictures
Stormy skies over Skiddaw and Binsey [5/4/2008 by Anne Bowker]
Newlands Hause (near Buttermere) [5/4/2008 by The Hiley Website ]
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
This new section shows photographs from Lake District Now visitors going about their daily lives. If you would like to take part please take a suitable photograph and .
Snow on the South Downs near South Harting, West Sussex [6/4/2008, my own picture]
It was apparently 1989 when we last had this much snow in the South during April.
The South downs is likely to become the next National Park
Stinging Nettles peeking through the snow [6/4/2008, my own picture]
Lake District Trivia?
How many of Britain's 14 existing National Parks can you name, and when were they founded? view answer
England
Broads - founded 1989
Dartmoor - founded 1951
Exmoor - founded 1954
Lake District - founded 1951
New Forest founded 2005
Northumberland - founded 1956
North York Moors - founded 1952
Yorkshire Dales - 1954
Peak District - founded 1951
Scotland
Cairngorms - founded 2003
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs - founded 2002
Wales
Brecon Beacons - founded 1957
Pembrokeshire Coast - founded 1952
Snowdonia - founded 1951
source nationalparks.gov.uk
Photo of the Day
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Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards visits Settle in the Yorkshire Dales
Mad About Mountains - Ann Bowker visits Quarry Hill House Gardens with Lake District Volunteers
Loweswater Cam - The Hiley's walk Robinson from Newlands Hause via Moss Force, Buttermere Moss and High Snockrigg
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