A regional interest magazine is marking its 70th anniversary with a new competition to find its patch’s best landscape.

Cumbria magazine is inviting readers to vote for their favourite views ahead of the milestone in February next year.

Cumbria was founded in 1947 by the sub-regional Lakeland groups of the Youth Hostels Association, and bought four years later by Dalesman publishing company.

It covers areas including the Lake District, Eden Valley, the Scottish border, North Pennines and some of the remotest areas of the Yorkshire Dales.

Editor John Manning said: “As the most spectacularly beautiful part of England, Cumbria has more than its fair share of terrific scenery. As the magazine reaches its seventieth anniversary, we are inviting our readers to share their favourites.

He added: “The Lakeland landscape is rightly renowned the world over for its beauty, but our hunt for the finest view is not restricted to the Lake District National Park.

“One of my own favourites is that from the edge of the High Cup valley, where the Pennine Way enters Cumbria after crossing the Pennine watershed from the east.

“When you stand there you’re sometimes above the clouds, and gazing across the vale of the River Eden to the Lakeland fells, framed by the perfectly shaped valley’s dolerite edges, the view just stops me in my tracks.”

The poll will close on 1 February 2017, and the results will be published in a special anniversary edition on 23 February.