Cumberland, England

Cumberland is one of the 39 traditional counties of England. In 1974, it was amalgamated with Westmorland and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire to form Cumbria.

The county town was Carlisle, and it bordered Northumberland and County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south, and the Furness part of Lancashire to the south-west.

The county was administratively divided into five wardss, rather than the hundred found in most English counties. The wards were Allerdale above Derwent, Allerdale below Derwent, Cumberland, Eskdale and Leath.

The name continues in use as a geographical term, and survives in Cumberland sausages and various organisations and companies, such as the local newspapers The Cumberland News, and The West Cumberland Times and Star, and the Cumberland Building Society.

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