Lakes new dawn in more ways than one

LANDSCAPE charity Friends of the Lake District is inviting the public to help celebrate the national parks extension areas by joining them to see in the new dawn over the newly extended Lake District National Park on its first day Monday August 1.
 
Friends of the Lake District campaigned long and hard to see the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales National Parks extended.

The charity is inviting the public to watch the new dawn over one of the new areas of the Lake District National Park, on Scout Scar, near Kendal.

Local photographers and artists are also warmly invited to come and capture the first dawn over the new national park land.

Douglas Chalmers, chief executive of Friends of the Lake District said: “This is a historic day and a very rare one – national park status is the highest level of legal protection our stunning landscapes can have and this hasn’t happened in Cumbria since the 1950s, when some very beautiful land was left out of the national park boundaries and unprotected.  

“Friends of the Lake District has been campaigning for this day for a very long time. Please come and help us celebrate and record the moment.”
 
Breakfast butties will be provided for anyone wishing to join the dawn celebrations – around 5.30am on August 1.

It is free event but Friends of the Lake District are asking people to pre-register attendance so that catering can be arranged.