Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes, (AUDIO: Call to Arms [+]Loading...["Call to Arms (audio story)"]) was a region in the North of England, famous, as the name suggested, for its lakes. One of these lakes was Ullswater. (AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)"])
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Sometime around the 12th century, a Zygon spaceship crash landed in Kendal, in the Lake District. The Zygons onboard, including Haygoth, went into hibernation for centuries. (AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)"])
In 1896, Ian Lunn was born in the Lake District.
The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones visited the region in September 1909, hoping to meet King Edward VII who was there on a hunt for the alleged "Beast of Westmoreland." The Doctor and his companion discovered and defeated a Zygon threat, spoiling Brelarn's attempt to assassinate the king. (PROSE: Sting of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Sting of the Zygons (novel)"])
After the Second World War, Helen Sinclair often went on holidays to the Lake District with her family. (AUDIO: Absent Friends [+]Loading...["Absent Friends (audio story)"])
The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller visited Kendal in 1984. They stayed at Patricia Ryder's hotel and met her husband, Trevor, who was in fact a Zygon named Haygoth. Haygoth had fallen in love with Pat, and took a liking to living the planet Earth with her, in the Peak District. (AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)"])
In the 2000s, the Hambleton Estate was built in a secluded part of the Lake District. It was located on Grass Street. Nathan Goss moved there together with his parents Marco and June Goss. (PROSE: The Lost Boy [+]Loading...["The Lost Boy (novelisation)"])
The Lake District was said to resemble the planet Flissta, and many Flisk settled there after the destruction of their homeworld in 2079. (PROSE: Snowglobe 7 [+]Loading...["Snowglobe 7 (novel)"])
In the 29th century, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond went to the Lake District to witness the human evacuation of the planet Earth. (GAME: Evacuation Earth [+]Loading...["Evacuation Earth (video game)"])
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Patricia Ryder stated that there "[wasn't] much call for pop industry insiders in the Lake District, though stated that there was a nice Folk Festival each year in Kendal. "Trevor" loved the Lake District. (AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)"])
Clara Oswald once suggested to the Eleventh Doctor that they go to the Lake District. According to the Doctor, the place had great scones in 1927. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten [+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"])
