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United Kingdom: Cumbria – Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top Farm
Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria…

United Kingdom: Cumbria – Windermere Jetty Museum
Windermere Jetty displays an internationally important collection of boats in a magnificent location…

UK: Cumbria – Lake District
The 885-square-mile Lake District is a hauntingly beautiful part of northwest England that was voted…
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Cumbria is the most north-western county in England, bordering onto Scotland. The county of Cumbria consists of six districts (Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland), 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.
Its largest settlement and county town is Carlisle and the only other major urban area is Barrow-in-Furness on the south-western tip of the county
