Cumbria
|
|
| Cumbria | |
|---|---|
| |
| Geography | |
| Status: | Ceremonial & Administrative County |
| Region: | North West England |
| Area: - Total - Admin. council | Ranked 3rd 6,768 km² Ranked 2nd |
| Admin HQ: | Carlisle |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-CMA |
| ONS code: | 16 |
| NUTS 3: | UKD11/12 |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density - Admin. council | Ranked 41st 489,829 72 / km² Ranked 28th |
| Ethnicity: | 99.3% White |
| Politics | |
| Missing image Arms-cumbria.jpg Arms of Cumbria County Council Cumbria County Council http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/ | |
| Executive: | Conservative & Liberal Democrat |
| Members of Parliament | |
|
Tony Cunningham, Tim Farron, John Hutton, David Maclean, Eric Martlew, Jamie Reed | |
| Districts | |
Missing image
CumbriaNumbered.png Image:CumbriaNumbered.png | |
Cumbria is an administrative county located in the northwest area of England. The boundaries are along the Irish Sea to the west, and along the Pennines to the east. Cumbria's northern boundary stretches from the Solway Firth to Morecambe Bay along the Scotland border.
Cumbria is neighboured by Northumberland, County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Lieutenancy areas of Dumfries and Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale in Scotland.
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 the Furness part of Lancashire, and a protrusion of Yorkshire. The name "Cumbria" has been used for the region for centuries.
Following the creation of Cumbria as an (administrative) county, some people, particularly those born or brought up in the area, prefer to refer to the Furness area by its traditional county name of "Lancashire". Others, including local government, promotional material for the area, the Lake District National Park Authority, and most visitors describe the area as being in "Cumbria".
The culture of the area was Celtic until quite late (see Rheged), and the name derives from their name for the area, in the Cumbric language. It is etymologically connected to the Welsh term Cymru, meaning "Wales". Cumbria remains one of the most Celtic areas of England.
Cumbria is home to the Lake District National Park, considered one of the most beautiful areas of Great Britain. The highest point of the county (and of the whole of England) is Scafell Pike at 978m/3209ft.
Towns and Villages
See the List of places in Cumbria.
People and Places of Interest
- Bassenthwaite Lake
- Brantwood
- Buttermere
- Donald Campbell
- Cartmel Priory
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Coniston Water
- Crummock Water
- Cumbria Way long distance footpath
- Dales Way long distance footpath
- Derwent Water
- Eden Valley Railway - heritage railway
- Ennerdale Water
- Fisher Tarn Reservoir
- Furness Abbey
- Haig Colliery Mining Museum
- Hartley Castle
- Haweswater
- Holker Hall
- Killington Reservoir
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway - heritage railway
- Windermere (the lake)
- Lanercost Priory
- Levens Hall
- The former site of the Beast Banks post office in Longsleddale.
- National Nature Reserves in Cumbria
- Pennine Way long distance footpath
- Beatrix Potter
- Quaker tapestry, Kendal
- Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway - heritage railway
- Rheged
- Rydal Water
- Seathwaite Tarn
- Sizergh Castle
- Thirlmere
- Ullswater
- Alfred Wainwright
- Wast Water
- Whinfell Forest
- William Wordsworth
| United Kingdom | England | Ceremonial counties of England | 
|
|
Bedfordshire | Berkshire | City of Bristol | Buckinghamshire | Cambridgeshire | Cheshire | Cornwall | Cumbria | Derbyshire | Devon | Dorset | Durham | East Riding of Yorkshire | East Sussex | Essex | Gloucestershire | Greater London | Greater Manchester | Hampshire | Herefordshire | Hertfordshire | Isle of Wight | Kent | Lancashire | Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | City of London | Merseyside | Norfolk | Northamptonshire | Northumberland | North Yorkshire | Nottinghamshire | Oxfordshire | Rutland | Shropshire | Somerset | South Yorkshire | Staffordshire | Suffolk | Surrey | Tyne and Wear | Warwickshire | West Midlands | West Sussex | West Yorkshire | Wiltshire | Worcestershire |
eo:Kumbrio es:Cumbria fr:Cumbrie ja:カンブリア州 nl:Cumbria no:Cumbria simple:Cumbria