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54° 30' 48.6" N, 3° 9' 0.36" W
Borrowdale is a valley in the English Lake District in Cumbria, England which lies within the historic county boundaries of Cumberland. It has a population of only around 450 people. Borrowdale boast a Church of England on its border. Borrowdale valley rises in the central Lake District which also runs north carrying the River Derwent into the lake of Derwent Water.
Borrowdale is a also a very popular tourist destination with lots of hotels, guest houses, holiday cottages, bed and breakfast and camping sites. A massive dump of graphite was discovered near the Seathwaite settlement near Borrowdale parish which became very useful for the local people to mark their sheep. The graphite was enormously pure and solid and that’s why pencil industry was born in nearby Keswick.
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