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Hand-drawn map of Westmorland and Cumberland by Christopher Saxton from 1576. Westmorland bordered Cumberland to the north, County Durham and Yorkshire to the east, and Lancashire to the south and west. Windermere formed part of the western border with Lancashire north of the sands, and Ullswater part of the border with Cumberland.
A map of Cumbria, showing the districts: (1) Cumberland; (2) Westmorland and Furness. A map of Cumbria, showing the pre-2023 districts: (1) Barrow-in-Furness; (2) South Lakeland; (3) Copeland; (4) Allerdale; (5) Eden; and (6) Carlisle. A civil parish in England is the lowest unit of local government.
Map of Cumberland showing wards, 1824. The Earldom of Carlisle was partitioned into baronies. When the County of Cumberland was created, the baronies were subdivided as wards, a county sub-division also used in Durham, Northumberland and Westmorland. These originated as military subdivisions used to organise the male inhabitants for the county ...
Westmorland and Furness is a unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The economy is mainly focused on tourism around both the Lake District and Cumbria Coast , shipbuilding and the port in Barrow-in-Furness , and agriculture in the rural parts of the area.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Cumbria with Lancashire as a sub-region of the North West Region, with the existing seat of Morecambe and Lunesdale extending into southern Cumbria to create a cross-county boundary constituency.
The Cumberland unitary authority area covers the north and west of Cumbria, and Westmorland and Furness the south and east; they are named after the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, but have different boundaries. [36] Cumberland has had a Labour majority administration since the 2022 Cumberland Council election, and Westmorland ...
Cumberland is a unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It borders Scotland , Northumberland , Westmorland and Furness , and the Irish Sea . Part of the area is in the Lake District National Park and notable landmarks include Carlisle Cathedral , Carlisle Castle and Hadrian's Wall .
As the English county boundaries had remained essentially unchanged since the eleventh century, [16] the list can thus be seen to represent the "original" locations of the English county tripoints. During the nineteenth century a number of laws, most notably the Counties Act of 1844 , resulted in the relocation of some sections of historic ...