How can you get to lake district?

because it was carved out by glaciers which left tarns (or lakes)

There are 14 main bodies of water in the lake district but only one official "lake" and that is Bassenthwaite Lake. All the rest are "meres" or "waters", for example Windermere, and Coniston Water.

Lake Windermere

There is more than one lake in the Lake District, but the main one is Lake Windermere. It is 10.5 miles long, 1.25 miles wide and up to 220 feet deep.

Bassenthwaite Lake is the only one actually called a Lake. The others are called Meres, Waters or Tarns. (The Tarns are smaller.) It is always difficult to define a smallest as it depends on what...