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Stewart Smith

Lakeland icons Sphinx Rock (left) said to resemble a carved face from one direction, and a crouched cat from another, with Wast Water beyond; and Napes Needle, which became an early lightning rod for sport climbing, when W P Haskett-Smith free-soloed to its top in 1886.

Winter snow hangs over the summit ridge of Blencathra, a sentinel mountain in the Northern Lake District overlooking Derwent Water and the town of Keswick. Beyond are the crumpled outlines of the western fells.

From the slopes of Great Hell Gate on Great Gable, a view of England's highest mountains and deepest lake. Scafell Pike's and Scafell's summits are, respectively, the left and right highmost summits in the massif to the left, while the smear of Wast Water can be seen in the distance.

Thirlmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, was – along with neighbouring Derwent Water – used for several aerial scenes in The Force Awakens (2015).