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- Westmorland is reputedly the county of the most beautiful rugged scenery in the land. It is one of the Lake Counties, it is a mountainous shire, with some of the grandest scenery of the land.
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Westmorland is one of the Lake Counties. It is divided in parts by the fells; in the north-west of the county runs the Eden Valley, where the county town, Appleby-in-Westmorland is found. Through Edendale runs the River Eden, producing a quiet, fertile dale, isolated by the fells each side. The Eden rises high on Mallerstang Common and flows throug...
The border between Westmorland and Cumberland is possibly the highest south of the Highlands. In the east it runs up the beck that becomes the River Tees to its source and at once down the Crowdundle Beck into Edendale and the Eden. Then up the Eamont it sunders Penrith in Cumberland from Eamont Bridge in Westmorland and to Ullswater, the second gr...
Westmorland's main waters are: 1. Brotherswater 2. Elter Water 3. Grasmere 4. Haweswater 5. Hayeswater 6. Rydal Water Shared with other counties are: 1. Ullswater(on the border with Cumberland) 2. Windermere(on the border with Lancashire)
The largest and most widespread industry in Westmorland is tourism, and the Lake District National Park is the single biggest draw; the whole Park receiving in excess of 8.3 million visitors a year from across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and the Far East. Fewer than 50,000 people are permanently resident within the Lake District Natio...
By the early sixth century, Westmorland was part of the Kingdom of Rheged, a stronghold of the native Britons against the incoming English. According to the poems of Taliesin, King Urien had a capital at Llywfenydd, identified as the River Lyvennetin Westmorland. Ancient burial mounds are found at the head of the Lyvennet. By the end of the 7th cen...
Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling is an ancient and well-practised tradition in the two counties with a strong resemblance to Scottish Backhold. The origin of this form of wrestling is a matter of debate, with some describing it as having evolved from Norse wrestling while other historians compare it with the Cornish and Gouren styles, suggestin...
Lakes, fells and landscape
1. Firbank Fell 2. Fisher Tarn Reservoir 3. Grasmere and Rydal Water 4. Harrison Stickle 5. Haweswater 6. Striding Edge 7. Kentmere 8. Ullswater 9. Whinfell Forest 10. Windermere
Long distance footpaths
1. Dales Way 2. Pennine Way
Houses, museums etc
1. Abbot Hall Art Gallery 2. Blackwell 3. Brough Castle 4. Brougham Castle 5. Brougham Hall 6. Dove Cottage, Grasmere 7. Eden Valley Railway 8. Hartley Castle 9. Kendal Castle 10. KillingtonReservoir 11. Lakeland Wildlife Oasis, near Milnthorpe 12. Levens Hall 13. Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal 14. Quaker tapestry, Kendal 15. Sizergh Castle& Garden 16. Whinfell Forest 17. Windermere Steamboat Museum, Bowness-on-Windermere
Westmorland (/ ˈwɛstmərlənd /, formerly also spelt Westmoreland[6]) is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria. People of the area are known as Westmerians. [7] The area includes part of the Lake District and the southern Vale of Eden.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Yet the crowning glory of Westmorland is its mountains. Anyone who has scrambled along Striding Edge, or walked atop the Langdale Pikes, or marvelled at the views from Pike o’Stickle into Great Langdale and Mickleden, will never forget Westmorland.
May 23, 2018 · The name Westmorland seems to mean the country west of the moors—i.e. the Pennines. It formed part of Brigantes territory, was occupied by the Romans, colonized by Anglo-Saxons pushing out the Britons, and became a rather loosely attached part of the kingdom of Northumbria .
This popular holiday spot is home to 16 lakes and dozens more bodies of water, as well as a collection of mountain ranges that culminates in England’s highest peak, Scafell Pike, at 3,206 ft.
