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    Wordsworth’s slate toytown

    Aug 25, 2021 3 minutes
    PATRICK BARKHAM

    I had not taken a walk in the Lake District for 20 years.

    I arrived to the soundtrack of dark warnings that England’s most majestic Alpine landscape had become a giant car park and litter bin – its mountain tracks eroded by 4WDs and mountainsides wrecked by sheep. Would it be strippe dof its World Heritage status?

    The reality was a landscape under some strain and undergoing

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