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@simon_brooke @Wen @jbenjamint true, but these days it has been mostly abandoned to sheep, grouse and hill walkers.
The same is also true of all the abandoned 'wildernesses' of the UK and around the world, they were originally nothing like they are today having been changed by human occupation, sometimes in different way at different times.
The Lake District was once heavily wooded with natural species such as oak, until they were cut down to make wooden ships and charcoal to smelt ore, so for a while a hive of industry.
The Amazon watershed was likewise extensively populated before Europeans brought their diseases.