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Cambria. Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, Cymru. [1] The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity) or the early medieval period. After the Anglo-Saxon settlement of much of Britain, a territorial distinction developed between ...
Westmorland and Furness. 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.
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 ...
Lake District. The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and the Cumbrian mountains, and for its literary associations with Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, and the Lake Poets.
Strathclyde (lit. " broad valley of the Clyde ", Welsh: Ystrad Clud, Latin: Cumbria) [1] was a Brittonic kingdom in northern Britain during the Middle Ages. It comprised parts of what is now southern Scotland and North West England, a region the Welsh tribes referred to as Yr Hen Ogledd (“the Old North").
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.
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 ...
Westmorland. Westmorland (/ ˈwɛstmərlənd /, formerly also spelt Westmoreland[6]) is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria. People of the area are known as Westmerians. [7] The area includes part of the Lake District and the southern Vale of Eden.