Cumbrian places, in alphabetical order
Click on a link in the Cumbrian places list to be taken to the relevant article.
Aglionby, potatoes
Appleby, Westmorland
- Appleby Jail and also here
- Bonfire Night 1855
Aughtertree, Cumberland
Black Syke, Calthwaite
Bowness on Solway, Cumberland
Bowness on Windermere
Brampton, Cumberland
Burton and Holm, Westmorland
Caldbeck, Cumberland
Calthwaite
Cargo – and cholera
Carlisle, Cumberland
- Annetwell Street
- Botchergate
- Botcherby
- Caldewgate
- Cathedral
- Carlisle Central School
- Irishgate
- Paradise Court
- Rickergate
- Scotch Street and here
- The Sorceries and the Bitts
- The River Eden and River Caldew
- The Carlisle Canal
- The canal opening day celebrations
- Lodging houses – and disease
- Garlands Hospital,
- cholera
- flooding 1822
- Jacobite occupation 1745
- the city in 1810
Cotehill (aka Coathill)
Crosthwaite, Cumberland and here
Dacre, Westmorland
Dalston, Cumberland
Dearham
Derwentwater, Cumberland
Drumburgh, Cumberland (Westfield House, Kirkland House)
Fellside, Caldbeck, Cumberland
Haltcliff, Caldbeck
Hutton Roof, Cumberland (Stuart Hill/Stewart Hill, Heggle Head/Hegglehead)
Hutton Sceugh, Cumberland
Intack, Cumberland
Irthington
- wedding custom
- the vicar
Kendal, Westmorland
Kingstown, Cumberland, riots and affray and disease
Kirkby Stephen
- Bonfire Night 1855
Kirby Thore
Kirkoswald
Lamplugh wedding customs
Longburn, Cumberland
Maryport, Cumberland
Matterdale
Meaburn, Westmorland
Newbiggin Hall, Westmorland.
Nichol Forest, Cumberland
Ormathwaite, Cumberland
Penrith
- Christmas 1853
- Little Dockray (Redmayne House)
- Little Dockray (General Wolfe)
- Brunswick Square (First World War)
- Bonfire Night 1855
- Board of Health, water closet row
- King Street history (no 14)
- near riot at a wedding
- public houses: General Wolfe again. Ship; Blue Bell; Bell & Bullock (also in King St post)
- the brothel that wasn’t
Plumpton
Port Carlisle, Cumberland
- Port Carlisle, a history built on hope
- Britain at Low Tide TV programme
- the brig Robert Burns
- The Dandy
- Haaf net fishing
- the Solway Viaduct
- Customs and revenue
- the canal opening day
Shap, Westmorland
Staffield, 1856 murder
Temple Sowerby
- Mary Walker on the parish
- The Tolerator
- water scheme
Silloth, Cumberland
- kindness in Silloth
Upperby – and disease
Whitehaven, Cumberland
Workington
- SS West Cumberland,
- Whisky galore
- cholera
- Dr Anthony Peat – memorial obelisk
Yanwath, Westmorland
- William Jackson’s 1850 will,
- William Jackson II and Emma Pears
- the Yanwath railway explosion
- lack of water/sewerage problem
