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Cumberland (/ ˈ k ʌ m b ər l ə n d / KUM-bər-lənd) is an area of North West England which was historically a county.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.
Cumberland is a unitary authority area in Cumbria, England, and a non-metropolitan county and district. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It borders Scotland , Northumberland , Westmorland and Furness , and the Irish Sea .
Nicholforest is a civil parish in Cumbria, England bordering Scotland. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 372. [1] The parish covers an area that extends about 10 miles east to west and 2 miles north to south.
Inglewood is first attested in the forms Englewod’ (c. 1150), Engelwode (c. 1158) and Englewud (1227). [1] The name means "Wood of the English or Angles". This seems to reflect a situation where, at the time of the name's formation, Cumbria was still predominantly a Celtic-speaking region, and sometimes part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, and English settlement or land-ownership was still ...
The 16,233-acre (65.69 km 2) Cumberland State Forest is north of U.S. Route 60, west of State Route 45 and bordered on the west by the Willis River. The Forest has multiple purposes, including watershed protection, recreation, timber production, hunting, fishing, and applied forest research.
Cumbria (/ ˈ k ʌ m b r i ə / 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.
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 ...
It is likely that Malcolm succeeded in regaining the Cumberland part of Cumbria in 1061: in 1070 he used Cumberland as his base to attack Yorkshire. [98] This 1061 incursion was the first of five such raids by Malcolm, a policy that alienated the English Northumbrians and made it harder to fight the Normans after the invasion of 1066.