History of Cumbria

Cumbric is an extinct Celtic Brythonic language or dialect that was spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what is now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. Place-name evidence suggests Cumbric may also have been spoken as far south as Pendle and the Yorkshire Dales. The prevailing view is that it became extinct in the 12th century, around the incorporation of the Kingdom of Strathclyde into the Kingdom of Scotland.

Cumberland ( ) 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. The county included the city of Carlisle, part of the Lake District and North Pennines, and the Solway Firth coastline.

Westmorland (, formerly also spelt Westmoreland) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The area included part of the Lake District and the southern Vale of Eden, and its inhabitants were known as Westmerians.

group of 19th-century British poets

area of northern Britain ruled by the Brythonic people in the 5-7th century

thumb|The River Eden, Cumbria|Eden Valley is thought by some to have been the heartland of the kingdom of Rheged. Rheged () was one of the kingdoms of the ('Old North'), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages. It is recorded in several poetic and bardic sources, although its borders are not described in any of them. Archaeological work from 2012 onwards on a site in Galloway in Scotland is interpreted by the excavators as showing that it is a royal centre of Rheged. Rheged possibly extended into Lanca

major nuclear accident in the UK

96-mile long border between England and Scotland

right|thumb|300px|Arthuret church from Woodland Edge Arthuret is a civil parish in Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,434, increasing to 2,471 at the 2011 census. The parish includes the town of Longtown and the village of Easton. It is bounded by the River Esk to the west and the River Lyne to the south.

Grade I listed English country house in Appleby-in-Westmorland, United Kingdom

type of small fortified keep or tower house found on the sides of the English-Scottish border

thumb|350px|Forts on Stanegate and Hadrian's wall

English victory over Scotland, 1542

2010 shooting spree in Cumbria, England

Grade I listed castle in Penrith, United Kingdom

Roman fort in Cumbria, England

Roman fort and settlement on the site of present-day Maryport in Cumbria, England, UK

train accident

Cumbrian killer of the King of Alba

Neolithic henge monument in Eabridge, Westmorland, Cumbria, England, UK

Neolithic henge monument in Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, Cumbria, England, UK

raiders from late 1200s to the beginning of the 1600s along the Anglo-Scottish border