Editing Cumbria (section)

===Tourism===
[[File:Whinlatter Forest Park Sign.jpg|thumb|right|The entrance to Whinlatter Forest Park]]
[[File:Way in - geograph.org.uk - 406894.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sizergh Castle]]]]
[[File:Muncaster Castle morris edited.jpg|thumb|right|[[Muncaster Castle]]]]
The largest and most widespread industry is tourism, with the county attracting over 47 million visitors annually.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Cumbria Tourism | url=https://www.cumbriatourism.org | access-date=9 September 2024}}</ref> The [[Lake District|Lake District National Park]] alone receives some 15.8&nbsp;million visitors every year.<ref name=LakeDistrictstats>{{cite web |url=http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/learning/lakedistrictfacts/factsandfigures |title=Lake District National Park |publisher=Lake District National Park |access-date=16 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019005727/http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/learning/lakedistrictfacts/factsandfigures |archive-date=19 October 2013 }}</ref> Despite this, fewer than 50,000 people reside permanently within the Lake District: mostly in [[Ambleside]], [[Bowness-on-Windermere]], [[Coniston, Cumbria|Coniston]], [[Keswick, Cumbria|Keswick]], [[Gosforth, Cumbria|Gosforth]], [[Grasmere (village)|Grasmere]] and [[Windermere, Cumbria (town)|Windermere]].<ref name=LakeDistrictstats/> Over 36,000 Cumbrians are employed in the tourism industry which adds £1.1&nbsp;billion a year to the county's economy. The Lake District and county as a whole attract visitors from across the UK,<ref name=LakeDistrictstats/> Europe, North America and the Far East (particularly Japan).<ref name=LakeDistrictstats/> The tables below show the twenty most-visited attractions in Cumbria in 2009. (Not all visitor attractions provided data to Cumbria Tourism who collated the list. Notable examples are [[Furness Abbey]], the [[Lakes Aquarium]] and [[South Lakes Safari Zoo]], the last of which would almost certainly rank within the top five).<ref name=LakeDistrictstats2>{{cite web |url=http://www.cumbriatourism.org/research/attractions.aspx |title=Lake District National Park |publisher=Cumbria Tourism |access-date=16 July 2010 |archive-date=2 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100802074727/http://www.cumbriatourism.org/research/attractions.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

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{| class="wikitable"
! Rank !! Attraction !! Location !! Visitors
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| 1 || [[Windermere#Steamers, launches and ferries|Windermere Lake Cruises]] || Bowness-on-Windermere || 1,313,807
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| 2 || Rheged || Penrith || 439,568
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| 3 || [[Glenridding#Ullswater Steamers|Ullswater Steamers]] || Glenridding || 348,000
|-
| 4 || [[Whinlatter Pass|Whinlatter Forest Park and Visitor Centre]] || Whinlatter || 252,762
|-
| 5 || [[Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery]] || Carlisle || 251,808
|-
| 6 || [[Grizedale Forest|Grizedale Forest Park and Visitor Centre]] || Grizedale || 175,033
|-
| 7 || [[Carlisle Cathedral]] || Carlisle || 166,141
|-
| 8 || [[Brockhole Lake District Visitor Centre]] || Windermere || 135,539
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| 9 || [[Hill Top, Cumbria|Hill Top]] || Hawkshead || 103,682
|-
| 10 || [[Sizergh Castle]] || Sizergh Castle || 90,063
|}
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{| class="wikitable"
! Rank !! Attraction !! Location !! Visitors
|-
| 11 || [[Cumberland Pencil Museum]] || Keswick || 80,100
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| 12 || [[Muncaster Castle]] || Ravenglass || 78,474
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| 13 || [[Dock Museum]] || Barrow-in-Furness || 73,239
|-
| 14 || The Beacon || Whitehaven || 71,602
|-
| 15 || [[Holker Hall]] || Cartmel || 58,060
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| 16 || [[Carlisle Castle]] || Carlisle || 56,957
|-
| 17 || [[Beatrix Potter Gallery]] || Hawkshead || 47,244
|-
| 18 || Lake District Wildlife Park<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lakedistrictwildlifepark.co.uk/about-us/|title=About Us – Lake District Wildlife Park|access-date=14 March 2017|archive-date=15 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315091101/http://www.lakedistrictwildlifepark.co.uk/about-us/|url-status=live}}</ref> || Bassenthwaite || 45,559
|-
| 19 || [[The Homes of Football]] || Ambleside || 49,661
|-
| 20 || [[Cartmel Priory]] || Cartmel || 43,672
|}
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