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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. The council area formed on 1 April 2023, on the abolition of Cumbria County ...
Website. Cairn Lodge Services was built in the early 1990s by entrepreneurs John and Aileen MacInnes. The services are built next to Cairn Lodge, the eighteenth-century gatehouse of the now derelict Douglas Castle. Cairn became part of the Westmorland Family in 2014 and shares the same principles of good food which bind all our businesses.
Welcome to the Westmorland Dales. The area lies to the north of the Howgill Fells in Cumbria, extending over 200 sq km from Maulds Meaburn in the north to Tebay in the south-west and Ravenstonedale in the south-east. This remote and beautiful pastoral landscape has a unique mix of habitats and remarkably intact pattern of historical settlements ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Westmorland, historic county of northwestern England, bounded on the north and west by Cumberland, on the southwest and southeast by Lancashire, on the east by Yorkshire, and on the northeast by Durham. It is now part of the districts of Eden and South Lakeland in the administrative county of Cumbria. Map of England showing Yorkshire ...
Westmoringaland means ‘the land to the west of the moors’. This refers to the moors of the north Pennines where the ancient county begins. In the east Westmorland is bounded by The Calf, highest of the Howgill Fells, while in the north of the county the boundary is marked by the great mass of Cross Fell and by the beauty of the verdant Eden ...
Westmorland and Cumberland, colloquially known as ‘Cumbria’ (not to be confused with the administrative area governed by Cumbria County Council since 1974), are also known as the Lake Counties. Of course, the Lake District National Park (now a World Heritage Site: ‘The English Lake District’) comprises parts of the aforementioned, together with a large portion of Lancashire North of ...
The pretty town of Appleby-in-Westmorland lies at the head of the Eden Valley, Cumbria's undiscovered jewel. While visitors flock to the Lake District further west, the Eden Valley remains relatively untouched by tourism, making it a wonderful alternative to the sometimes overcrowded lakes. The history of Appleby goes back to at least the 9th ...
