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The history of medieval Cumbria has several points of interest. The region's status as a borderland coping with 400 years of warfare is one. The attitude of the English central government, at once uninterested and deeply interested, is another. As a border region, of geopolitical importance, Cumbria changed hands between the Angles, Norse ...
54°36′00″N 3°07′45″W / . 54.5999°N 3.1293°W. / 54.5999; -3.1293. Keswick ( / ˈkɛzɪk / KEZ-ik) is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. Historically, until 1974, it was part of the county of Cumberland. It lies within the Lake District National Park, Keswick is just ...
Pictures of later St. Bridget's church, Calder Bridge visitcumbria.com- accessed 2008-02-25; The cross stumps in St. Bridget's churchyard BBC Cumbria- accessed 2008-02-25; Historical information on Beckermet St. John Vision of Britain- accessed 2008-02-25; Pictures of St. John's church visitcumbria.com- accessed 2008-02-25; Website of White ...
Askam and Ireleth is a civil parish close to Barrow-in-Furness in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Historically part of Lancashire, it originally consisted of two separate coastal villages with different origins and histories which, in recent times, have merged to become one continuous settlement. In the 2001 census the parish had a ...
Kendal Castle. Coordinates: 54.32492°N 2.73644°W. Kendal Castle is a medieval fortification to the east of the town of Kendal, Cumbria, in northern England. The castle, which is atop a glacial drumlin, was built in the 13th century [1] as the Caput baroniae for the Barony of Kendal. By the 15th century, the Parr family owned the castle.
Yes. Holmcultram Abbey (alternatively Holm Cultram Abbey or Holme Cultram Abbey) was a Cistercian monastery in what is now the village of Abbeytown in Cumbria, United Kingdom . Founded in 1150, the abbey was suppressed in 1538 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The former monastic church remains in use as a parish church ( St Mary's ...
Aspatria / ə s ˈ p eɪ t r i ə / is a town and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. The town rests on the north side of the Ellen Valley, overlooking a panoramic view of the countryside, with Skiddaw to the South and the Solway Firth to the North.
Threlkeld. / 54.61917; -3.05148. Threlkeld is a village and civil parish in the north of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, to the east of Keswick. It lies at the southern foot of Blencathra, one of the more prominent fells in the northern Lake District, and to the north of the River Glenderamackin. The parish had a population of 454 in the ...