This natural region monopolized Early Modern pencil production after some 16th century shepherds stumbled on the world’s first major graphite deposit. This region is the birthplace of an orienteering-like sport in which mountain runners must navigate for themselves while traversing unmarked land. A common completionist goal for visitors to this region is to bag all 214 peaks listed in a classic “pictorial guide” by Alfred Wainwright. An earlier Guide to [this region] includes a verse description of a difficult climb through (*) Kirkstone Pass. By making alterations to its garden, a drug-addicted tenant upset the owners of this region’s Dove Cottage. This region contains the highest examples of barren hilltops known as “fells,” such as Scafell Pike. For 10 points, the Pantisocracy was a utopian scheme hatched by writers associated with what region, including Southey and Coleridge? ■END■
ANSWER: Lake District [prompt on Cumbria, Westmoreland, North West England, or Great Britain] (The sport is fell running. Thomas De Quincey rented Dove Cottage from the Wordsworths. William Wordsworth wrote A Guide to the Lakes.)
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