Editing Lake District (section)

== National Park ==
[[File:National Parks in England and Wales.svg|thumb|200px|right|Lake District National Park (shown as number 2) in a map of national parks in England and Wales.]]
The '''Lake District National Park''' includes all of the central Lake District, though the town of [[Kendal]], some coastal areas and the [[Cartmel Peninsula|Cartmel]] and [[Furness]] peninsulas are outside the park boundary. The area was designated a [[National parks of England and Wales|national park]] on 9 May 1951, a month after the [[Peak District]], the first UK national park. It retained its original boundaries until 2016, when it was extended by 3% to the east, in the direction of the [[Yorkshire Dales National Park]], to incorporate areas land of high landscape value around the [[Lune Valley]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36905517|title=Yorkshire Dales and Lake District national parks extend|work=BBC News|date=1 August 2016|access-date=14 March 2017|archive-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115111335/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36905517|url-status=live}}</ref>

The national park received 18.14&nbsp;million tourist visitors in 2022. This equates to 29.15&nbsp;million tourist days, counting visits of greater than three hours.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tourism |url=https://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/learning/factstourism |website=Lake District National Park |access-date=19 October 2023 |language=en |date=29 July 2013}}</ref> It is the largest of the thirteen national parks in [[England and Wales]] and the second largest in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] after the [[Cairngorms National Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk|title=Lake District National Park – Home page|publisher=Lakedistrict.gov.uk|date=6 April 2005|access-date=21 April 2010|archive-date=7 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207012942/http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> Its aim is to protect the landscape by restricting unwelcome change by industry or commerce. The area of the national park, with the exception of the 2016 extension, was designated a [[World Heritage Site]] in 2017 as a [[cultural landscape]]. This was the fourth attempt to list the park, after two attempts in the 1980s and one in 2012 failed.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web |date=9 July 2017 |title=English Lake District welcomed into UK UNESCO family as 31st UK World Heritage Site |url=https://www.unesco.org.uk/news/english-lake-district-welcomed-into-uk-unesco-family-as-31st-uk-world-heritage-site |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807063903/https://www.unesco.org.uk/news/english-lake-district-welcomed-into-uk-unesco-family-as-31st-uk-world-heritage-site/ |archive-date=7 August 2018 |access-date=2 December 2017 |website=unesco.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 June 2012 |title=Lake District misses its World Heritage status bid |url=https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/9746100.lake-district-misses-its-world-heritage-status-bid/ |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=The Westmorland Gazette |language=en}}</ref>

The park is governed by the Lake District National Park Authority, which is based at offices in [[Kendal]]. It runs a visitor centre on [[Windermere]] at a former country house called [[Brockhole Lake District Visitor Centre|Brockhole]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brockhole |url=http://www.brockhole.co.uk |access-date=22 June 2012}}</ref> Coniston Boating Centre,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coniston Boating Centre |url=http://www.conistonboatingcentre.co.uk |publisher=Lake District National Park}}</ref> and information centres. The park authority has 20 members: six appointed by Westmorland and Furness Council, four by Cumberland Council, and ten by the [[Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs|Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The National Park Authorities (England) Order 2015, Schedule 1 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/770/schedule/1 |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=Legislation.gov.uk}}</ref>