Key learning points

1. People mainly work in tourism but farming is a traditional occupation
2. Beef cattle and sheep are the main livestock kept by hill farmers. Its famous Herdwick sheep often graze on common land.
3. Traditional practices include hedge laying, coppicing of woodland and quarrying of local building materials
4. Tourism is vital to the economy of the area, providing employment and supporting services in local communities

Keywords

• Common land - Common land is land where people have shared rights for collective, communal grazing of livestock.

• Tradition - A tradition is something that has been done the same way for a long time

• Economy - The economy is the way money in a particular area is made through production and trade and how money is spent

• Tourism - Tourism means people travelling to a different place from where they live for a holiday

• Quarrying - Quarrying is digging things like rock or sand out of the ground for use

Common misconception