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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. Its largest settlement is the city of Carlisle.

The county is predominantly rural, "with an area of 6,"769 km (2,614 sq mi) and a population of 500,012; this makes it the third largest ceremonial county in England by area. But the eighth-smallest by population. After Carlisle (74,281), the largest settlements are Barrow-in-Furness (56,745), Kendal (29,593), and Whitehaven (23,986). For local government purposes the county comprises two unitary authority areas, Westmorland and Furness and Cumberland. Cumbria was created in 1974 from the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, the Furness area of Lancashire, and a small part of Yorkshire.

The interior of Cumbria contains large upland areas. The south-west contains the Lake District, a national park and UNESCO world heritage site which includes Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain, and Windermere, its longest. And largest lake. The Border Moors and North Pennines lie along the county's eastern border. The south-east contains the Orton Fells, Howgill Fells and part of the Yorkshire Dales, which are all within the Yorkshire Dales national park. The Vale of Eden, the valley of the River Eden, runs south-east to north-west between these upland areas, and broadens into the Solway Plain near Carlisle. The county has long coast to the west, which is bordered by a plain for most of its length. In the north-west it borders the Solway Firth, a national landscape, and to the south are the Cartmel and Furness peninsulas. East of the peninsulas, the county contains part of Arnside and Silverdale, also a national landscape. (Full article...)

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Furness College is a college of further education in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It provides a wide range of A levels, vocational education and skills training to over 16s, notably working with BAE Systems to train apprentices for their shipyard in Barrow. The college also offers courses for adults, and runs HNDs and other higher education programmes including foundation degrees, degrees and "master's degrees," for which it achieved Teaching Excellence Framework silver status in June 2017. It is the only college in Barrow and the largest further education college in Cumbria. On 1 August 2016, Furness College merged with Barrow Sixth Form College.

In August 2016, Furness College gained chartered college status when it became a member of the Chartered Institution for Further Education. This membership is awarded to the higher performing further education colleges and training providers in the UK. The college is also a member of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear. (Full article...)

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Andrew Johnston (singer) Grayrigg derailment Herdwick HMS Cardiff (D108) Lady in the Lake trial Nethermost Pike Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett Askam and Ireleth Brougham Castle Grade I listed churches in Cumbria Salta, Cumbria Clifton Hall, Cumbria Brough Castle Gleaston Castle Dacre Castle Carlisle Barrow-in-Furness Kendal Whitehaven Lake District St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck Furness Abbey Prehistoric Cumbria Crosby Garrett Cockermouth 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods Roman Cumbria History of medieval Cumbria Gilsland BAE Systems Submarines Kendal Mint Cake University of Cumbria Isabella Lickbarrow

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  Image 1Claife Station on the western shore of Windermere – built in the 1790s with tinted windows angled to take in all the aesthetically pleasing views (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 2The Fish Hotel, Buttermere – where Mary Robinson worked (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 3The entrance to Whinlatter Forest Park (from Cumbria)
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  Image 4Swinside stone circle (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 5Castlerigg Stone Circle (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 6The Rere or Rey Cross on Stainmore (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 7Greta Hall, Keswick – home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800–1804; home to Robert Southey, 1803–1843 (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 8Muncaster Castle (from Cumbria)
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  Image 9Cumbria within England (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 10The Staffordshire Moorlands Pan – an enamelled cooking and serving vessel, engraved with the names of four Hadrian's Wall forts sited in Cumbria (2nd century AD). See also the article on the Rudge Cup and Amiens skillet. (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 11The M6 motorway and West Coast Main Line near Grayrigg Forest (from Cumbria)
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  Image 12Wray Castle – built by a Liverpool doctor who had married a rich wife. Constructed in 1840 at the head of Windermere. Associated with two key players of the National Trust : Canon Rawnsley and Beatrix Potter (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 13Milefortlet 21 at Crosscanonby on the Cumbrian coast, with later, 18th-century, saltpans across the road to the left (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 14A Border Reiver : statue in Carlisle (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 15Fibulae from the Penrith Hoard, 10th century (British Museum) (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 16Hardknott Roman Fort (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 17Yanwath hall – a semi-fortified house near Penrith (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 18 William Wordsworth (from Cumbria)
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  Image 19The Irton Cross, Irton, Cumbria, early 9th century, Anglian (pre-Viking) sculpture (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 20The Crosby Garrett Helmet – (private collection) (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 21The Gosforth Cross, 10th-century Viking-age sculpture. (A replica of 1887, with clearer depictions of the decoration, may be found in the churchyard at Aspatria, along with a replica of another cross, the original of which is at Dearham) (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 22'Giants Grave', St. Andrew's churchyard, Penrith, an unusual arrangement of two Viking-age cross-shafts with four hogbacks (in the foreground). In addition, there is a smaller, Viking-age, wheel-headed cross just visible in the background (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 23Brantwood, overlooking Coniston Water, viewed from the steam yacht 'Gondola' – note the angled, corner windows designed to take in the views (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 24Rydal Mount – home to Wordsworth 1813–1850. Hundreds of visitors came here to see him over the years (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 25The Eden Valley between Appleby and Penrith, an area referred to affectionately as the heartland of Rheged in the praise poems of Taliesin (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 26The Stanegate line is marked in red, to the south of the later Hadrian's Wall. (n.b. Brocavum is Brougham, not Kirkby Thore as given in the map) (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 27A Tesco store underwater in Carlisle during the January 2005 floods (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 28Loki stone, Kirkby Stephen parish church, part of a 10th-century Viking-age cross-shaft. But does it show Loki or Satan? (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 29The Ormside bowl, probably late 8th century and made in Northumbria; possibly looted from York by a Viking warrior and buried with him at Great Ormside (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 30High Cup Nick, in the North Pennines (from Cumbria)
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  Image 31Swarthy Hill, near Crosscanonby on the Solway coast – possible site of Iron Age hillfort, later the site of mile-fortlet 21 in Roman times (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 32The historic counties shown within Cumbria

    Boundary of Cumbria

    Cumberland

    Westmorland

    Lancashire

    West Riding of Yorkshire

  (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 33 Stan Laurel (from Cumbria)
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  Image 34Carlisle Castle – begun by William Rufus in 1092; rebuilt in stone under Henry I, 1122–35, and David I of Scotland, 1136–1153 (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 35The northeastern Irish Sea, showing new settlements with Norse place names. (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 36The banks of Brocavum Roman fort in the foreground; Brougham Castle is in the background (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 37Possible position of Rheged (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 38Galava Roman fort, Ambleside (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 39Location of Inglewood Forest, stretching from Carlisle to Penrith; it was the most northerly of the Royal forests (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 40Penrith Castle : Richard, Duke of Gloucester, (later Richard III of England), was based here when Sheriff of Cumberland in the 1470s (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 41The Castlerigg stone circle dates from the late Neolithic age and was constructed by some of the earliest inhabitants of Cumbria (from Cumbria)
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  Image 42Hadrian's Wall (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 43So-called "Saint's tomb" (left), and "Warrior's tomb" (right), two hogbacks in St. Mary's church, Gosforth. Typically high and narrow Cumbrian style, in the shape of a building with a roof, eaves and walls. The Saint's tomb has a crucifixion on the end, the Warrior's tomb has a procession of armed men (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 44Little Meg – a Bronze Age ring cairn with spiral rock art (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 45Craven Park, home of Barrow Raiders (from Cumbria)
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  Image 46Approximate extent of Domesday coverage : the district of Hougun, if indeed it was a district, may have covered the three peninsulas at the left of the pink area (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 47Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of Thomas De Quincey, 1809–1820 (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 48Local government districts 1974–2023
  1. City of Carlisle
  2. Allerdale
  3. Eden
  4. Copeland
  5. South Lakeland
  6. Barrow-in-Furness (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 49Neolithic stone axe with handle from Ehenside Tarn (now in the British Museum) (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 50Iron Age roundhouse reconstruction (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 51Calder Abbey (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 52Furness Abbey, founded in 1123 by Stephen, King of England, attacked by the Scots in 1322 (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 53Scots' Dike (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 54Workington Hall, the Curwens' family seat (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 55Kentmere Hall, an example of a Cumbrian Pele tower (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 56Roman milestone still in situ by the A66 near Kirkby Thore (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 57Long Meg and Her Daughters (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 58Muncaster Castle (from Cumbria)
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  Image 59 Beatrix Potter (from Cumbria)
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  Image 60Brunton Park, the home of Carlisle United (from Cumbria)
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  Image 61Sizergh Castle (from Cumbria)
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  Image 62Wetheral Priory Gatehouse – all that remains of Wetheral Priory, founded by Ranulf le Meschin in 1106 (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 63Tomb of Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre at Lanercost Priory (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 64St Laurence's Church, Morland : with "the only tower of Anglo-Saxon character in the NW counties", according to Pevsner. Tower possibly built by order of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, sometime between 1042 and 1055; nave possibly later (1120) (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 65Kents Bank, Cumbria (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 66The site of the 2007 Grayrigg train derailment (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 67Cairn circle, Oddendale (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 68Birdoswald – showing partial blockage of main (east) gateway (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 69The Anglo-Scottish marches (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 70Furness Abbey (from Cumbria)
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  Image 71The University of Cumbria's Fusehill Campus in Carlisle (from Cumbria)
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  Image 72Carlisle Cathedral : founded in 1133 (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 73The historic counties shown within Cumbria

    Boundary of Cumbria

    Historic Cumberland

    Historic Westmorland

    Historic Lancashire

    West Riding of Yorkshire

  (from Cumbria)
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  Image 74Walls Castle, Ravenglass: the possible site of the Arthurian Lyons Garde or St Patrick's birthplace (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 75Gateway to the College at Kirkoswald (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 76BAE Systems Submarine Solutions in Barrow-in-Furness has a workforce of around 12,000 people. (from Cumbria)
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  Image 77Great Langdale, site of the Langdale Axe Factory (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 78Topographic map of Cumbria (from Cumbria)
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  Image 79Hadrian's Wall (from Cumbria)
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  Image 80Napes Needle on Great Gable, a favourite of the early climbers (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 81Greystoke Castle. Held by the Greystoke family, then by the Dacres and inherited by the Howard family during Elizabeth I's reign. Photo:Simon Ledingham (from History of Cumbria)
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  Image 82St Mary's Church, Abbeytown : all that is left of Holmcultram Abbey, founded by David I, King of Scots, and his son, Earl Henry, in 1150 (from History of Cumbria)

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The Belah Viaduct was a railway viaduct on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, crossing the River Belah, in Cumbria, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village of Barras and 4 miles (6.4 km) east north east of Kirkby Stephen. It was completed in 1860 and was demolished in 1963.

The viaduct was designed by Thomas Bouch and the ironwork was supplied and erected by Gilkes Wilson; both Bouch and Gilkes Wilson were also responsible for the later Tay Bridge. It had 'double' Warren truss girders on cast iron columns, and was constructed at a cost of £31,630. The foundation stone was laid in November 1857. (Full article...)

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