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Cumbria. / 54.500°N 3.250°W / 54.500; -3.250. Cumbria ( / ˈkʌmbriə / KUM-bree-ə) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancashire to the south ...
The Dock Museum is situated in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Most of its exhibits concern the history of the town, focusing on the shipbuilding industry at VSEL (now BAE Systems), the steelworks industry — of which Barrow once had the world's largest, the Furness Railway and the World War II bombings of the town. There has been a ...
The English county of Cumbria is located in North West England and has a population of 496,200 (making it the 41st most populous county of England's 48 counties). Cumbria has an area of 6,768 km², making the county England's third largest county , and with only 73 inhabitants per km², it is the country's second least densely populated county.
Appleby Market Square Central Barrow-in-Furness skyline Bassenthwaite Lake Bewcastle Cross Black Combe cairn Borrowdale Buttermere Carlisle Castle Conishead Priory near Ulverston Coniston Dungeon Ghyll Ennerdale Water Furness Abbey Grizedale Tarn Kendal, canal change bridge Keswick, Moot Hall Patterdale village Silloth, West Beach Silloth Port River Nith estuary Wasdale from Wastwater Walney ...
Cumbria was created as a county in 1974 from territory of the historic counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire North of the Sands and a small part of Yorkshire, but the human history of the area is ancient. It is a county of contrasts, with its mountainous central region and lakes, fertile coastal plains in the north and gently ...
Wray Castle. / 54.4006345°N 2.9641913°W / 54.4006345; -2.9641913. Wray Castle is a Victorian neo-gothic building at Claife in Cumbria within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire. The house and grounds have belonged to the National Trust since 1929, with the house open to the public on a regular basis since 2013.
The Cumbria Portal. Cumbria ( / ˈkʌmbriə / KUM-bree-ə) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west.
Cumbria is one of England's most tourism-focused counties, mainly because it contains the English Lake District Subcategories. This category has the following 31 ...