This is the next instalment of my monthly feature going
through the Counties of the UK in alphabetical order to check out things of
interest. I hope you enjoy it
Location –
in the North West of England bordering on Scotland.
Flag
County
seat
– Carlisle
Popular
Sports: Fell Running
Flower –
Grass-of-Parnassus
Signature
foods – Cumberland Sausage, Grasmere Gingerbread, Kendal
Mint Cake, Cumberland Sauce, Sticky Toffee Pudding
Famous
places to visit – Lake District National Park, Carlisle
Castle, Hadrian's Wall, Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cartmel Priory, Derwentwater,
Lake Windermere, Dove Cottage (Wordsworth)
Famous
people from Cumbria – William Wordsworth, Dorothy
Wordsworth, Fletcher Christian, Christine McVie, Margaret Forster
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