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The annual county show takes place on the second Thursday of September at the Society's showground and is said to be "one of the largest one day Shows in the Country". [3] [4] It includes competitive classes for heavy and light horses, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, dogs, alpacas, rural crafts and Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling.
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.
Many of the larger counties hold their own shows: these include the Royal County of Berkshire Show, the Cheshire Show, the Royal Cornwall Agricultural show, the Devon County Show, the Kent County Show, the Westmorland County Show, [1] [2] [3] Dorset, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, and Surrey.
Thrimby was a chapelry with 2 townships within Morland parish. [5] It became a civil parish in 1866. [6] On 1 April 2019 the parish was merged with Little Strickland. [7]On 23 October 1970, the nine-mile Tebay to Thrimby section of the M6 was opened, [8] built by Christiani-Shand.
Crooklands is a hamlet in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Kendal on the A65 road and the Lancaster Canal. Historically part of Westmorland, it is in the parish of Preston Richard but adjacent to Preston Patrick to the south east, the boundary roughly following Peasey Beck.
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.
Cliburn is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness Unitary Authority of Cumbria, England; the civil parish includes the hamlet of Town Head. At the 2001 census , the population was 204; [ 1 ] this increased to 274 by 2011 .
Morland is a village and civil parish in the rolling hills of the Eden Valley in Cumbria, England.It lies within the historic county of Westmorland.The parish includes the hamlets of Town Head and Morland Moor, and had a population of 380 in 2001, [2] reducing marginally to 374 at the 2011 Census.