Editing Lake District (section)

==== Land ownership ====
Most of the land within the national park is in private ownership, with about 55% registered as agricultural land. Landowners include:

* Individual farmers and other private landowners, with more than half of the agricultural land farmed by the owners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The state of farming and land management in the Lake District |url=http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/170701/c_farming_land_man.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011943/http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/170701/c_farming_land_man.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 |access-date=2 December 2017 |publisher=lakedistrict.gov.uk}}</ref>
* The [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] owns around 25% of the total area (including some lakes and land of significant landscape value).
* The Forestry Commission and other investors in forests and woodland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forestry Commission Cumbria |url=http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/NWWM_CumbriaWoodlandStrategy.pdf/$FILE/NWWM_CumbriaWoodlandStrategy.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083646/http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/NWWM_CumbriaWoodlandStrategy.pdf/$FILE/NWWM_CumbriaWoodlandStrategy.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=14 July 2019 |publisher=forestry.gov.uk}}</ref>
* [[United Utilities]] (owns 8%)
* Lake District National Park Authority (owns 3.9%)