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  • ...ularly for fell-walkers and those enjoying the scenery in a more sedentary way. The highest mountain in England is [[Scafell]] in Cumberland, Scafell Pik ...towns, spurred by coal, ports and in time the coming of the railway. The coastal towns grew into large industrial towns and Carlisle served as a railway hub
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  • ...area's biggest town, and engulfing a number of smaller villages along the way. The Furness Railway expanded to the mining sites at [[Coniston]] and [[Gre *Cumbria Coastal Way
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  • ...area's biggest town, and engulfing a number of smaller villages along the way. The Furness Railway expanded to the mining sites at [[Coniston]] and [[Gre *Cumbria Coastal Way
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  • ...nation. The region is famous for its lakes, forests and fells and for the way in which these were romantically portrayed in the 19th century in the poetr ...ins beside the [[Solway Firth]]. To the west of the fells is Cumberland's coastal plain, and to the south [[Barrow in Furness]] sits on low gorund but otherw
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  • [[File:hardknott climb.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The road snakes its way up the Duddon side of the pass]] ...the western end of the pass, the road descends through Eskdale towards the coastal towns of Cumberland. At the eastern end, the [[Wrynose Pass]] carried the
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  • The pier connected with the Furness Railway line to [[Kirkby-in-Furness]] by way of Furness Abbey, making use of the causeway. Initially the line was open f ...he place of the railway tracks along the causeway.<ref>The Cumbria Coastal Way, Brit Long-distance Series, A Cicerone Guide Series, Ian Brodie, Krysia Bro
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  • ...st1=Brodie|first1=Ian|last2=Brodie|first2=Krysia|title=The Cumbria Coastal Way|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-1OkkMpK4gC&pg=PA50|accessdate=10 Ju
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  • ...dated. At the end of the canal is a pub, and part of the [[Cumbria Coastal Way]].<ref name=SLDC/>
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  • ...d by the 2011 census at 819. It is in the north-west of the county on the coastal plain, and is to be found five and a half miles south-east of [[Silloth]], ...lly reopened in September 2015.<ref>'[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-34369138 Holme Cultram St Mary Abbey open nine years after arson attack]':
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  • ...] across the Firth. The village is located on the 150-mile Cumbria Coastal Way long distance footpath. ...barrels made on the premises.<ref>‘Mary Beeby's Memorandum' published by Cumbria Family History Society, Aug. 1998</ref> There was also a smoke house where
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  • ...ttp://www.romanheritageway.fsnet.co.uk/section2.html |title=Roman Heritage Way - Carlisle to Walton / Banks |publisher=Romanheritageway.fsnet.co.uk |date= ...06-21}}</ref> It was replaced by No. 9 Operational Training Unit, 17 Group Coastal Command, in August 1942 for training long-range fighter crews on Bristol Be
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