This is a list of articles related to the
Englishcounty of
Cumbria. See also the Category:Cumbria for links to the Cumbrian pages (e.g., towns, villages, railway stations, places of interest, people born in Cumbria, etc.)
People
See the category Cumbria below for people born in Cumbria. This lists people not native to Cumbria but who had connections with Cumbria.
Writers
William Wordsworth – England's most famous poet, born in Cockermouth, lived in Grasmere
John Cunliffe – author of
Postman Pat, an animated BBC series featuring a postman in the fictional village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of
Longsleddale in Cumbria). The author lived in
Kendal.
Anthony Salvin – restorer and architect of several important buildings in
Cumbria, including Lanercost Priory, Hutton-in-the-Forest, Muncaster Castle, and Derwent Isle House
Thomas Rickman – architect – various, including Rose Castle and Scaleby Castle
John Paul Jones – Naval officer in the American Revolutionary War, born in
Kirkcudbrightshire who began his maritime career sailing out of
Whitehaven as apprentice aboard the Friendship at only seventy years of age. Years later he returned in
USS Ranger hoping to sink all Whitehaven's ships anchored in harbour (numbered between 200 and 400), before setting the town itself ablaze.
Graphite – used in the
pencil making industry in
Keswick. The graphite deposit found at
Borrowdale was extremely pure and solid and it could easily be sawed into sticks. This was and remains the only deposit of graphite ever found in this solid form.
BNFL – British Nuclear Fuels – owners and operators of the
Nuclear reprocessing site – at
Sellafield, and the world's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, now closed.
The
Dovenby Hall estate in Dovenby, near
Cockermouth, dates from 1154 and has been used, amongst other things, as a private residence, a mental institution, and, most recently, as home of the
Ford Rally Team.
The year 2001 proved to be a terrible year for Cumbria because of the
foot and mouth crisis, suffering 893 confirmed cases of the disease out of a total of 2030 cases in the UK. The effects of some 10 months of this crisis on some businesses were immense, and many rural pubs, B&B's and other tourist-related shops closed forever due to little income during 2001. See more information about
foot and mouth disease.
The
Spadeadam Rocket Establishment, near
Carlisle, was opened in the late 1950s as a test area for the British Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) –
Blue Streak
This is a list of articles related to the
Englishcounty of
Cumbria. See also the Category:Cumbria for links to the Cumbrian pages (e.g., towns, villages, railway stations, places of interest, people born in Cumbria, etc.)
People
See the category Cumbria below for people born in Cumbria. This lists people not native to Cumbria but who had connections with Cumbria.
Writers
William Wordsworth – England's most famous poet, born in Cockermouth, lived in Grasmere
John Cunliffe – author of
Postman Pat, an animated BBC series featuring a postman in the fictional village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of
Longsleddale in Cumbria). The author lived in
Kendal.
Anthony Salvin – restorer and architect of several important buildings in
Cumbria, including Lanercost Priory, Hutton-in-the-Forest, Muncaster Castle, and Derwent Isle House
Thomas Rickman – architect – various, including Rose Castle and Scaleby Castle
John Paul Jones – Naval officer in the American Revolutionary War, born in
Kirkcudbrightshire who began his maritime career sailing out of
Whitehaven as apprentice aboard the Friendship at only seventy years of age. Years later he returned in
USS Ranger hoping to sink all Whitehaven's ships anchored in harbour (numbered between 200 and 400), before setting the town itself ablaze.
Graphite – used in the
pencil making industry in
Keswick. The graphite deposit found at
Borrowdale was extremely pure and solid and it could easily be sawed into sticks. This was and remains the only deposit of graphite ever found in this solid form.
BNFL – British Nuclear Fuels – owners and operators of the
Nuclear reprocessing site – at
Sellafield, and the world's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, now closed.
The
Dovenby Hall estate in Dovenby, near
Cockermouth, dates from 1154 and has been used, amongst other things, as a private residence, a mental institution, and, most recently, as home of the
Ford Rally Team.
The year 2001 proved to be a terrible year for Cumbria because of the
foot and mouth crisis, suffering 893 confirmed cases of the disease out of a total of 2030 cases in the UK. The effects of some 10 months of this crisis on some businesses were immense, and many rural pubs, B&B's and other tourist-related shops closed forever due to little income during 2001. See more information about
foot and mouth disease.
The
Spadeadam Rocket Establishment, near
Carlisle, was opened in the late 1950s as a test area for the British Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) –
Blue Streak