Cumbria
Cumbria is a county in the North West of England. Its most famous tourist attraction is the Lake District National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness.
Carlisle
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Carlisle is a city in Cumbria, in northwest England 10 miles from the border with Scotland, with a population of 74,200 in 2024. Most visitors are just making an overnight stop on a long motorway journey, but reasons to linger include the cathedral, castle and museums.
Barrow-in-Furness
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Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and seaport in Cumbria, at the tip of the Furness peninsula. Many visitors come to Barrow for the Dock Museum, which tells the history of steelworks, the shipyard and the Barrow Blitz.
Kendal
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Kendal, in Cumbria, is a market town of 29,000 inhabitants. It describes itself as "The Gateway to the Lakes". Kendal is a picturesque, moderate sized town with plenty of shopping and surprisingly little tourist activity.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Lake District National Park and Penrith.
Lake District National Park
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The Lake District National Park, in North West England is the largest national park in England, occupying 885 sq mi. It is considered one of England's most scenic regions and is the country's premier destination for hiking and climbing.
Penrith
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Penrith is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is less than 3 miles outside the Lake District National Park and about 17 miles south of Carlisle.
Keswick
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Keswick is the northern tourist hub of the Lake District National Park and is a favourite base for serious walkers and climbers, artists and photographers, and anyone who enjoys mountain and lake scenery.
Whitehaven
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Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies 4 miles outside the Lake District National Park.
Workington
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Workington is a town with a population of 25,000 inhabitants on the Irish Sea coast in Cumbria. A regeneration of the town in 2006 installed several works of public art in the town centre.
Windermere
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Windermere is a town of 4,800 people in Cumbria. Tourism is popular in the town, owing to its proximity to the lake and local scenery. Boats from the piers in Bowness sail around the lake, many calling at Ambleside or at Lakeside where there is a restored railway.
Cockermouth
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Cockermouth is an English market town of 8,800 people in the modern county of Cumbria, at the north western end of the Lake District. Much of the architectural core of the town remains largely unchanged since the 18th and 19th centuries.
Appleby-in-Westmorland
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Appleby-in-Westmorland is a small town in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous today for the annual Horse Fair in June but is quietly picturesque for the rest of the year.
Ambleside
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Ambleside is a town in Cumbria. It is located at the head of Windermere, England’s largest lake, within the Lake District National Park.
Ulverston
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Ulverston is a small market town in Cumbria, United Kingdom. With a population of 13,000, Ulverston isn't a huge tourist attraction for the area, although its proximity to the Lake District makes it a quaint stop-over for visitors planning to explore more of Cumbria.
Grange-over-Sands
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Grange-over-Sands is also called the "Lakeland Riviera", since the influence of the Gulf Stream gives it an exceptionally mild climate. It was historically in Lancashire, but re-assigned to Cumbria in 1974.
Sedbergh
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Sedbergh is a town in Cumbria, with a population of 1500 in 2021. It's in the valley of the River Rawthey, which flows into the Lune two miles west. In Old English "setberg" means a flat-topped hill, and it's a base for walking the gritstone moors.
Kirkby Lonsdale
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Kirkby Lonsdale is a town in Cumbria in northwest England, with a population of 2000 in 2021. It's best known for Devil's Bridge, the ancient crossing over the River Lune.
Brampton
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Brampton is a market town in Cumbria, 10 miles east of Carlisle. It has a pleasant preserved old centre and is near the route of Hadrian's Wall. In 2021 its population was 4186. Tourist information is available at Moot Hall in the market place.
Alston
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Alston is a small town in Cumbria, North West England. Alston lies within the North Pennines, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Alston is noted for its cobbled streets and 17th-century stone buildings.
Seascale
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Seascale is a village and civil parish on the Irish Sea coast of Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland. The parish had a population of 1,754 in 2011, barely decreasing by 0.4% in 2021.
Bowness-on-Windermere
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Bowness-on-Windermere is the main tourist centre for the South Lakes area of Lake District National Park. It sits on the shore of Windermere lake within the boundaries of the historic County of Westmorland. In 2011, it had about 3,800 permanent residents.
Hawkshead
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Hawkshead is a picturesque village in Lake District National Park. It is the smallest true town in Britain.
Coniston
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Coniston is a picturesque lakeside village in the Lake District National Park. Coniston sits next to Coniston Water, the Lake District's third largest lake is the home to many attempts at the world water speed record.
Grasmere
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Grasmere is a lakeside village in the Lake District National Park, best known as the home to poet William Wordsworth.
Buttermere
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Buttermere is a village of 120 people in Cumbria that takes its name from Buttermere, a lake in the Lake District National Park.
Borrowdale
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Borrowdale is a valley and civic parish in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria. The valley caters to lowland visitors and hill-walkers with hotels, guesthouses, holiday cottages, bed and breakfasts, youth hostels and campsites.
Eskdale Green
Eskdale Green is a small village in Cumbria at one end of the Eskdale Valley. The hamlet of Boot has an old corn mill in the heart but wander south away from the mill to find the little old church by the river.
Cumbria
- Type: Region with 500,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county of England
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Cumbria” and “Cumbria, England”
- Neighbors: County Durham, Dumfries and Galloway, Lancashire, North Yorkshire, and Northumberland
- Categories: ceremonial county of England and non-metropolitan county
- Location: North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cumbria” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cumbria”
- Arabic: “كمبريا”
- Aragonese: “Cumbria”
- Armenian: “Կումբրիա”
- Asturian: “Cumbria”
- Azerbaijani: “Kambriya”
- Balinese: “Cumbria”
- Basque: “Cumbria”
- Bavarian: “Cumbria”
- Belarusian: “Камбрыя”
- Bengali: “কাম্ব্রিয়া”
- Breton: “Cumbria”
- Bulgarian: “Къмбрия”
- Catalan: “Cúmbria”
- Cebuano: “Cumbria”
- Chinese: “Cumbria”
- Chinese: “坎布里亚郡”
- Chinese: “坎布里亞郡”
- Chinese: “金巴倫郡”
- Cornish: “Cumbria”
- Croatian: “Cumbria”
- Czech: “Cumbria”
- Danish: “Cumbria”
- Dutch: “Cumbria”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كمبريا”
- Esperanto: “Kumbrio”
- Estonian: “Cumbria”
- Finnish: “Cumbria”
- French: “Cumbria”
- Galician: “Cumbria”
- German: “Cumbria”
- Greek: “Κάμπρια”
- Gujarati: “કમ્બ્રિયા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Cumbria”
- Hebrew: “קאמבריה”
- Hindi: “कम्ब्रिया”
- Hungarian: “Cumbria”
- Icelandic: “Cumbria”
- Indonesian: “Cumbria”
- Interlingua: “Cumbria”
- Irish: “Cumbria”
- Italian: “Cumbria”
- Japanese: “カンブリア”
- Kannada: “ಕುಂಬ್ರಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “컴브리아주”
- Ladin: “Cumbria”
- Latin: “Cumbria”
- Latvian: “Kambrija”
- Lithuanian: “Kambrija”
- Luxembourgish: “Cumbria”
- Macedonian: “Камбрија”
- Manx: “Cumbria”
- Marathi: “कंब्रिया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cumbria”
- Mirandese: “Cúmbria”
- Nepali: “कम्ब्रिआ”
- Northern Frisian: “Cumbria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cumbria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cumbria”
- Norwegian: “Cumbria”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cumbria”
- Ossetian: “Камбри”
- Persian: “کامبریا”
- Polish: “Kumbria”
- Portuguese: “Cumbria”
- Portuguese: “Cúmbria”
- Romanian: “Cumbria”
- Russian: “Камбрия”
- Scots: “Cumbria”
- Serbian: “Камбрија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cumbria”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kambrija”
- Sicilian: “Cumbria”
- Slovak: “Cumbria”
- Slovenian: “Cumbria”
- Spanish: “Cumbria”
- Swedish: “Cumbria”
- Tagalog: “Cumbria”
- Tajik: “Камбрия”
- Tamil: “கும்பரியா”
- Telugu: “కుంబ్రియా”
- Thai: “คัมเบรีย”
- Turkish: “Cumbria”
- Turkish: “Törensel Cumbria Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Камбрія”
- Urdu: “کامبریا”
- Venetian: “Cumbria”
- Vietnamese: “Cumbria”
- Vlaams: “Cumbria”
- Volapük: “Cumbria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Cumbria”
- Western Frisian: “Kumbria”
- Western Panjabi: “کمبریا”
- Wu Chinese: “坎布里亚”
- Wu Chinese: “坎布里亚郡”
- Yiddish: “קאמבריע”
- Yue Chinese: “金巴倫郡”
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