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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Cumbrian toponymy, Cumbrian dialect, Smardale, RAF Carlisle, Demography of Cumbria, Herdwick, Sleddale Hall, Swaledale, List of Cumbria-related topics, Blencogo, Penrith Hoard, Solway Firth Spaceman, Honister Slate Mine, RAF Spadeadam, World's Biggest Liar, Dales Way, Gurn, Eden Sike Cave, Potter Fell, Wordsworth Trust, Foulney Island, Salterbeck, Luck of Edenhall, Holehird Gardens, Lake Poets, Thurstonfield Lough, Alan Billings, Cataract of Lodore, Appleby Horse Fair, Burlington Slate Quarries, Great Crosthwaite, Long Marton, North Lonsdale Rural District, Ellenborough, Cumbria, Kells, Whitehaven, Kendal Choral Society, Troutbeck Park, Eskdale Green, Port Carlisle. Excerpt: Cumbria (, locally ), is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in 2008 had a population of just under half a million. Cumbria is one of the most sparsely populated counties in the United Kingdom, with 73.4 people per km (190/sq mi). Despite this, the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, in the south, has a population density over twelve times this at 921/km (2,385.3/sq mi). Cumbria, the third largest ceremonial county in England by area, is bounded to the north by the Scottish council area of Dumfries and Galloway, to the west by the Irish Sea, to the south by Lancashire, to the southeast by North Yorkshire, and to the east by County Durham and Northumberland. A predominantly rural county, Cumbria contains the Lake District and Lake District National Park, considered one of England's most outstanding areas of natural beauty, serving as inspiration for artists, writers and musicians. Much of Cumbria is mountainous...
