The Lake District in 101 Maps And Infographics, by David Felton, Evelyn Sinclair and Andrew Chapman (Inspired by Lakeland, £14.99).

This is a compendium. Everything is here. The geology, the history – all told in six pages – the Wainwrights, the beer, the ghosts, and the 10 Cumbrians who have been on Desert Island Discs and the music they chose.

It’s exhaustive, compulsive and everything is displayed in the most colourful and inventive maps and diagrams. It’s all here to inform and amuse and pore over for hours.

Like all the words for “yukken it doon” – from bleary, daggy, donky, drayk’t, through maumy, meuthy, mizzle and muck, wet to weets, whewts and wisk. And then there’s the rain itself: 314.4 mm fell on Seathwaite in just 24 hours on November 19 and 20 in 2009.

And there’s 50 things that make the Lakes special. They include Aira Force, Cumberland sausage, Kendal mint cake and Jennings Brewery.

There’s a map of the mines. They seem to have been everywhere. The Carrock Wolfram Mine, which closed in 1982, was the only source of tungsten in the UK. The Hodbarrow Iron Mine employed over 1,000 miners when it was working at peak production. And grimly, there’s a graph of mining fatalities. So many of them in Whitehaven, from the accident in Kells in 1819 to the horrific disaster in the William Pit in 1947.

There’s a list of place names, the sort that you’d be embarrassed to have in your address. Do you fancy living at Wart? Bessyboot? Hobgrumble Gill? Grumply Hill?

Cumbria has 76,800 hectares given over to farming. Surprisingly sheep don’t come out on top. There’s more chickens in the county, over three million of them in 2016.

And there are still red squirrels in the Lakes. A map shows where they were sighted in 2016-17. There were hardly any sightings in the Solway Plain or down in the south of the county, but there still seem to be lots of reds in the central Lakes and along the Eden Valley.

Sail Chapman said “my favourite thing was the sandwiches” when he completed his 214th Wainwright. But then he’s on record as the youngest person ever to climb them all.

And John Bradbourne – I’ve never heard of him – wrote 6,000 poems which, if the lines were laid end to end would stretch for 169,925 metres. That makes the world’s largest ever Cumberland sausage ring (which only had a diameter of three metres) look very small indeed.

And those tourists who come to the Lakes, they’re now spending something like three billion pounds a year and, unsurprisingly, there are far more visiting pubs than going outdoor swimming.

David Felton, who collected and crunched all the data has his favourites. The Unicorn in Ambleside is his favourite pub and Knott Rigg his favourite ridge walk. and if he fancies a piece of cake, he goes to Low Sizergh Barn.And if you want information on Cumbria – everything from crime statistics to how you can visit 24 pubs in 12 hours – then this is the book for you.

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