Документ взят из кэша поисковой машины. Адрес оригинального документа : http://www.schools.keldysh.ru/school1413/eng/the_uk/england.html Дата изменения: Thu Dec 19 18:00:16 2002 Дата индексирования: Sat Dec 22 02:22:08 2007 Кодировка: Поисковые слова: vallis

Many foreigners say "England" and "English" when they mean "Britain", or "the UK", and "British". This is very annoying for the 5 million people who live in Scotland, the 2.8 million in Wales and 1.5 million in Northern Ireland who are certainly not English.

England occupies the largest part of the island of Great Britain. This part of the country is divided into 39 non-metropolitan and 7 metropolitan (that is, including a big city) counties. Southern England is dominated by London and the suburbs, which stretch for miles around the capital into what is called "home counties".

The north and the west of England are mountainous, but all the rest of the territory is a vast plain. In Northwest England, there are many beautiful lakes with green, wooden or grassy shores and gray mountains all around. The Lake District is the central mountainous area of Cumbria in the Northwest and has some of England's most beautiful scenery. Several other names are used to describe this area, for example Lakeland, and the English Lakes. Since the Lake District is a National Park, there is not spoiled. Nearly one quarter of the Lake District National Park is owned by the National Trust .

The National Trust is a charity, which means it is financed by ordinary people who pay to become members. It is not financed or run by the government.

Today the Trust is the third largest landowner in the country. It owns about 586,000 acres (almost 2,400sq.km.) of land. Its properties include famous gardens, whole villages, farms wind- and water-mills, lakes and hills, abbeys, prehistoric and Roman antiquities (including part of Hadrian's Wall), important bird sanctuaries such as Lindisfarne Island in Northumberland, and examples of industrial archaeology.