Cumbria

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Cumbria
File:EnglandCumbria.png
Demographics
Population:	487,607 (2001)
Ethnicity:	99% white
Geography
Region:	North West England
Districts
File:CumbriaNumbered.png Barrow-in-Furness South Lakeland Copeland Allerdale Eden Carlisle

Cumbria is an administrative county located in the North West of England. The boundaries are along the Irish Sea to the West, and along the Pennines to the East. Its Northern boundary stretches from the Solway Firth to Morecambe Bay along the Scottish border. It is made up of six districts: Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland.

Cumbria was created in 1974, and covers the traditional counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, plus parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Cumbria is home to one of the most beautiful areas of Britain, the Lake District National Park.

Rheged was an ancient Celtic English kingdom that existed in modern day Cumbria.

Towns and Villages

• Ambleside, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Aspatria
• Barrow-in-Furness, Bowness-on-Windermere, Brampton, Brough, Burton-in-Kendal
• Carlisle, England, Cockermouth
• Dalton in Furness
• Glenridding, Grange-over-Sands, Grasmere
• Kendal, Keswick, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kirkby Stephen
• Maryport, Millom, Muncaster
• Oulton, Cumbria
• Patterdale, Penrith, England
• Ravenglass, Rheged
• Sedbergh, Sellafield, Shap, Silloth
• Temple Sowerby, Thornhill, Cumbria
• Ulverston, Upton, Cumbria, England
• Walton, Cumbria, Wetheral, Whitehaven, Windermere, Workington

People and Places of Interest

• Bassenthwaite Lake
• Brantwood
• Buttermere
• Donald Campbell
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (perhaps the first fell walker, among other things...)
• Coniston Water
• Crummock Water
• Cumbria Way long distance footpath
• Dales Way long distance footpath
• Derwent Water
• Ennerdale Water
• Fisher Tarn Reservoir
• Furness Abbey
• Haweswater
• Holker Hall
• Killington Reservoir
• Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway - heritage railway
• Lake Windermere
• Lanercost Priory
• Levens Hall
• National Nature Reserves in Cumbria
• Pennine Way long distance footpath
• Beatrix Potter
• Quaker tapestry, Kendal
• Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway - heritage railway
• Rydal Water
• Seathwaite Tarn
• Sizergh Castle
• Thirlmere
• Ullswater
• Alfred Wainwright
• Wast Water
• Whinfell Forest
• William Wordsworth

External link

• Cumbria County Council

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References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Cumbria" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria, used under the GNU Free Documentation License