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RAF Spadeadam (pronounced "Spade Adam" [2]) (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGOM) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Cumbria, England, close to the border with Northumberland.It is the home of the 9,000 acre (36 km 2) electronic warfare (EW) tactics range, making it the largest (by area) RAF base in the United Kingdom. [3]
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 ...
Cumberland (/ ˈ k ʌ m b ər l ə n d / KUM-bər-lənd) is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria.The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish counties of Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire to the north.
In 2011, gagging orders that applied to themselves, or "super-injunctions" as they were called, were being referred to almost daily in the United Kingdom after a number of high-profile public figures, including celebrities and politicians, censored the British media from revealing information about their personal lives, such as affairs [92] and ...
Cumbria. 54°56′27″N 2°43′58″W / . 54.9409°N 2.7329°W. / 54.9409; -2.7329. Brampton is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority of Cumbria, England. It is 9 miles (14 km) east of Carlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hadrian's Wall. Historically part of Cumberland, it is situated off the A69 road ...
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 history of Cumbria as a county of England begins with the Local Government Act 1972. Its territory and constituent parts however have a long history under various other administrative and historic units of governance. Cumbria is an upland, coastal and rural area, with a history of invasions, migration and settlement, as well as battles and ...
England. Cumbria. 54°22′34″N 2°54′25″W / . 54.376°N 2.907°W. / 54.376; -2.907. Windermere ( / ˈwɪndərmɪər /) is a town in the civil parish of Windermere and Bowness, in the Westmorland and Furness district in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England; it is within the Lake District National Park. The town lies about half ...