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More Campsite InformationCastlerigg Farm Camping and Caravan SiteKeswick

017687 72479

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Great LangdaleAmbleside015394 37668Register Your Campsite
Wildrose ParkAppleby-in-Westmorland01768 351077Register Your Campsite
South End Caravan ParkBarrow-In-Furness01229 472823Register Your Campsite
Scotgate Holiday ParkBraithwaite01768 778343Register Your Campsite
Greave Farm Caravan ParkCartmel01539 536329Register Your Campsite
SpringleaMaryport01900 881331Register Your Campsite
Flusco WoodPenrith01768 480020Register Your Campsite
Gillside Caravan and Camping SitePenrith01768 482346Register Your Campsite
Lowther Holiday ParkPenrith01768 863631Register Your Campsite
Waterside House Camp SitePooley Bridge01764 886309Register Your Campsite
Fallbarrow ParkWindermere01539 444422Register Your Campsite
Limefitt ParkWindermere01539 432564Register Your Campsite
Park CliffeWindermere01539 531971Register Your Campsite

Where is Cumbria?

Map of Cumbria

About Cumbria

Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England.

Cumbria is home to the Lake District National Park, considered one of the most beautiful areas of the United Kingdom. The area has provided inspiration for generations of British and foreign artists, writers and musicians.

The highest point of the county (and of the whole of England) is Scafell Pike at 978 m (3209 ft). In fact, all the land in England that is over 3,000 feet is in this county.

Parts of Hadrian's Wall can be found in the northernmost reaches of the county, in and around Carlisle.

History of Cumbria

The county of Cumbria was created in 1974. It was a combination of the area of the administrative counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, the Cumberland county borough of Carlisle, along with the North Lonsdale or Furness part of Lancashire (including the county borough of Barrow-in-Furness), and from the West Riding of Yorkshire, the Sedbergh Rural District. The name "Cumbria" has been used for the region for centuries.

Following the creation of Cumbria as a non-metropolitan county, some people, particularly those born or brought up in the area, prefer to refer to the Furness area by its traditional county name of Lancashire and the Kendal and surrounding area by its traditional county name of Westmorland. Local papers The Westmorland Gazette and Cumberland and Westmorland Herald are still named on the traditional county basis. Others, including local government, promotional material for the area, the Lake District National Park Authority, and most visitors describe the area as being in "Cumbria". A MORI poll in the county found 79% of those polled identified "very strongly" or "strongly" to Cumbria throughout the county, but dropping to 55% and 71% in Barrow and South Lakeland districts, which incorporate part of historic Lancashire.

The culture of the area was predominantly Celtic until fairly late after the annexation by the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria, and the name for the area derives from its name in the Cumbric language. It is etymologically connected to the Welsh term Cymru, meaning "Wales". Cumbria remains one of the most Celtic areas of England.