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  • |name=Cumberland |map image=Cumberland Brit Isles Sect 3.svg
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  • |county town=[[Appleby-in-Westmorland|Appleby]] ...he grandest scenery of the land. It is bounded to the north and west by [[Cumberland]], to the south and south-west by [[Lancashire]] and to the east by [[Yorks
    11 KB (1,588 words) - 18:52, 22 February 2019
  • ...on]], [[Broughton-in-Furness]], Cartmel, [[Dalton-in-Furness]] and [[Askam-in-Furness]]. The population of Furness stands at around 100,000. ..., are known as the [[Furness Fells]]. [[Gummer's How]] is a prominent hill in the east of the region.
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  • '''Arnside''' is a village in the very south of [[Westmorland]]. It stands on the estuary of the [[River ...which runs from Lancaster across the estuary into Furness and on to the [[Cumberland]] coast, a line which passes over the River Kent on the Arnside viaduct. Up
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  • ...y map at 1 inch to the mile scale from a New Popular Edition map published in 1946]] ...]], producing a wide variety of maps for government and private purposes. In Northern Ireland, the same task is undertaken by the [[Ordnance Survey of N
    25 KB (3,907 words) - 10:42, 17 June 2014
  • |county 2=Cumberland ...District after [[Scafell Pike]] and [[Scafell]], and the highest mountain in [[England]] after those latter fells.
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  • [[File:Barrow skyline.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Barrow-in-Furness, looking over to Blackpool]] ..., [[Broughton-in-Furness]], [[Cartmel]], [[Dalton-in-Furness]] and [[Askam-in-Furness]]. The total population of Lancashire North of the Sands is 102,219
    11 KB (1,634 words) - 18:42, 29 September 2023
  • '''Onchan''' (pronounced ''onk-an'') is a village in the parish of Onchan on the [[Isle of Man]], within the Sheading of [[Garff ...St Connachan who was [[Diocese of Sodor and Man|Bishop of Sodor and Man]] in 540 and the church named after him, Kirk Coonachan.<ref name="IOMG-Onchan">
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  • The '''Culloden Battlefield''', by [[Culloden]] in [[Inverness-shire]], is the field on which ''the '45'', the Jacobite Rebell On 23 July Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, landed on [[Eriskay]] in the Outer Hebrides with a troop of French soldiers and claimed the crown on
    8 KB (1,261 words) - 14:47, 30 May 2017
  • ...ed and maintained by the local authority areas through which they pass, or in one case by its commercial sponsor. ...may be thousands older than that. Most others are new-minted, established in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries but created largely from pre-existi
    5 KB (636 words) - 22:48, 1 December 2016
  • {{county|Cumberland}} ...''') is a lake in [[Cumberland]], and one of the principal bodies of water in the [[Lake District]].
    3 KB (515 words) - 09:03, 16 November 2018
  • {{#vardefine:shire|Cumberland}} ...s well known to climbers conquering the greatest of the fells, and several footpaths converge here.
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  • |county 1=Cumberland ...highest mountain. At 2,923 feet, Nethermost Pike is the highest Wainwright in the Helvellyn range after [[Helvellyn]] itself.
    13 KB (2,079 words) - 16:17, 7 June 2017
  • ...the bay but production is now in decline and the main field was mothballed in 2011. ...t united by the broad sands which cross it, and footpaths, albeit perilous footpaths, cross the sands between the two sides of the county.
    16 KB (2,522 words) - 14:31, 27 May 2017
  • The '''Talyllyn Railway''' is a narrow-gauge preserved railway in [[Merionethshire]], running on a single line for 7.25 miles from [[Tywyn]] ...e 50</ref> the line remained open, and in 1951 it became the first railway in the world to be preserved as a heritage railway by volunteers.<ref>Thomas 2
    21 KB (3,249 words) - 23:33, 20 September 2013
  • {{county|Cumberland}} ...lker of them all, Alfred Wainwright. Wainwright himself wrote the walk up in a book, and after his death the route became a memorial to him, now known a
    3 KB (373 words) - 21:33, 8 June 2019
  • ...fort, Sustrans were aided by a £42.5&nbsp;million National Lottery grant. In 2005 it was used for over 230 million trips. ...s, disused railways, minor roads, canal towpaths and traffic-calmed routes in towns and cities.
    20 KB (2,523 words) - 14:00, 6 April 2017
  • ...e:Pennine scenery.jpg|right|thumb|450px|From the Pennine Way, near Marsden in Yorkshire]] ...s|Pennine Hills]]. It is the earliest and most fanous of the long-distance footpaths of Britain and may be said to have inspired the creation of all subsequent
    24 KB (3,721 words) - 14:51, 22 December 2023
  • ...of the [[River Annan]], from its source in the [[Moffat Hills]] to the sea in the [[Solway Firth]] south of the town of [[Annan]]. ...s a new area for walking. Its trailheads are near the [[Devil's Beef Tub]] in the [[Moffat Hills]] and on the Solway Firth just south of [[Annan]].
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  • ...[[Northumberland]] in the east to [[Bowness-on-Solway]] in [[Cumberland]] in the west coast. For most of its length it is close to the remains of [[Hadr The path was designated a 'National Trail' in 2003.
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