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Shallow lowland lakes, broad and reed-fringed. 3 in the Albion Guide.
A quiet Lakeland water ringed by high fells, its shoreline circuit among the loveliest short walks in Cumbria.
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Wordsworth's lake and village, where the poet lies in the churchyard and Dove Cottage stands close by the shore.
England's longest lake, a ribbon of water threaded with steamers and wooded islands between Ambleside and Newby Bridge.