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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 ...
The society exists to "promote, encourage, foster" the combined studies of genealogy, history, custom and archaeology, within the boundaries of the non-metropolitan county of Cumbria (which, as well as the two titular historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, includes elements of historic Yorkshire and Lancashire). History
1st Cumberland Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) 2nd (Carlisle) Cumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps. 2nd (Cumberland Yeomanry) Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. 2nd Cumberland Battery, Royal Field Artillery. 3rd (Maryport) Cumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps. 4th (Workington) Cumberland Artillery Volunteer Corps.
Cumbrian toponymy refers to the study of place names in Cumbria, a county in North West England, and as a result of the spread of the ancient Cumbric language, further parts of northern England and the Southern Uplands of Scotland . Cumbria within England. The history of Cumbria is marked by a long and complex history of human settlement.
Shap Stone Avenue. Stanegate. Categories: Archaeological sites in England. Tourist attractions in Cumbria. History of Cumbria. Protected areas of Cumbria. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
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.
Cumwhitton is a small village and civil parish close to Carlisle in Cumbria, England. It lies just east of the M6 and the nearest train station is located in Wetheral, 3 miles away. Cumwhitton is often confused with the nearby village of Cumwhinton in Wetheral parish. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 310.
Distribution and stratigraphy. The group outcrops near Whitehaven on the Cumbrian coast and beneath the Vale of Eden. It comprises the St Bees Evaporite and the overlying St Bees Shale Formation which are between 0 and 100m and 0 and 215m thick respectively. [1] The lower formation sits atop the mixed lithology breccia known as Brockram. [2]