What typle people live in the lake district?

Answer 1

Nice ones. Ethically, boy, what a mixture. The Lake District is part of the Celtic Fringe, so there are Celts; all sorts of celts. The original population was similar to the Lowland Scots, but this is overlaid by Norse invasions; when I was a boy, shepherds used to count their sheep in Old Norse - Yan, tan, tethera, methera.... In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mining was big in the Lake District, more espeially in West Cumberland, and miner migrated from other parts of the Celtic Fringe: Welshmen to the coal mines of Workington and Whitehaven, Cornishmen (like my Great-Grandfather) to the lead mines of the high fells. Near the West coast there is a village called Torpenhow (pronounced Trapenna, of course), and behind the village is Torpenhow Hill. This must be the most repetitive place name in the world, since Tor is Cornish for Hill, Pen is Welsh for Hill, How is Old Norse for Hill, and Hill.... Surnames in the Lake District are commonly on the Lowland Scots pattern, ending in -son: Patterson, Pattinson, Harrison, Wilson. West Cumbria has a lot of Grahams. The dialect of the Lake District is unique; all vowel sounds are different from Standard English. 'Everybody knows', for example, comes out as 'Ivribuddy knaas'. It's the mixture of Norse and Celtic that does this. Finally, there are the off-comers; middle-class holiday-home owners and retirees from all over England. But they don't count.