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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.
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.
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.
During the nineteenth century a number of laws, most notably the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 61), resulted in the relocation of some sections of historic boundaries, principally to remove detached portions of counties. With the notable exception of the creation of the metropolitan counties in 1974, the majority of the ...
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. Part of the area is in the Lake District National Park and notable landmarks include Carlisle Cathedral, Carlisle Castle and Hadrian's Wall.
Stainmore is a remote geographic area in the Pennines on the border of Cumbria, County Durham and North Yorkshire. [2] [3] The name is used for a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness of Cumbria, England, including the villages of North Stainmore and South Stainmore.
This article provides a list of constituencies constituting the Parliamentary representation from Westmorland. In 1889 an administrative county of Westmorland was created. In 1974 Westmorland was combined with Cumberland and northern Lancashire to form a new non-metropolitan county of Cumbria .