Lake District National Park Boundary

This represents 32 metres on the ground.

Lake district national park boundary. The overview map shows the whole national park with the confirmed boundary changes. The designation boundary has been interpreted by the lake district national park authority from the 1951 written description and two 1 inch to 1 mile paper maps. The green areas represent the lake district and yorkshire dales national parks. Whilst we welcome interest from communities in becoming part of the national park it is a matter for natural england to determine if the case is taken forward as was the process for the 2016 extension of boundary in the south and east of the park.

The lake district national park includes all of the central lake district though the town of kendal some coastal areas and the lakeland peninsulas are outside the park boundary. These show the confirmed boundary changes in. The boundary drawn on the map is one 50th of an inch wide. The area was designated a national park on 9 may 1951.

Ldnp maps 1 to 3 are low resolution versions of the maps included in the lake district national park designation variation confirmation order 2015. Friends of the lake district has submitted a formal request to extend the southern boundary of the lake district national park to natural england ne for its consideration. The lake district national park boundary was first designated in 1951. The boundary of the property is the lake district national park boundary as designated in 1951 and is established on the basis of both topographic features and local government boundaries.

The recent expansion to the lake district s eastern boundary in 2016 and the award of world heritage status to the national park in 2017 provided further impetus to parish councillors to act on behalf of their communities and identify a partner organisation to assess this landscape with the intention of applying to natural england for designation. The counties surrounding cumbria are shown in the map below. The lake district national park was designated in 1951 and extended on 1 august 2016. Lake district map cumbria maps.

Natural england is the government agency with the statutory powers to create a national park or vary its boundary. A small part of the yorkshire dales national park is now in cumbria dentdale and garsdale and the towns villages sedbergh dent and garsdale. Friends of the lake district are working with parish councils to make a case for an extension of the southern boundary of the national park. It retained its original boundaries until 2016 when it was extended by 3 in the direction of the yorkshire dales national park to incorporate areas such as.