Qualla: Cumbria https://qualla.com/cumbria en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cumbria https://qualla.com/cumbria Cumbria: Introduction https://qualla.com/cumbria/ The name itself is a clue. Cumbria, Cumberland, and the Welsh Cymru all descend from the same Brythonic word - kombroges - meaning 'compatriots' or 'fellow countrymen'. The Celtic Britons who lived here after the Roman withdrawal called themselves something like 'cum-ri', and the name has clung to this corner of England for more than a thousand years. The first dated record of it - 'Cumbraland' in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - was written in AD 945. The land it described stretched from Loch Lomond to perhaps as far south as Leeds. The modern county is smaller, but the feeling that this is a distinct country survives.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/w/cumbria-wp/gctw-cumbria-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cumbria: Mountains, Lakes, and the Edge of England https://qualla.com/cumbria/ Cumbria is the third-largest ceremonial county in England by area but only the eighth-smallest by population. The geography explains why. The interior is dominated by uplands: the Lake District in the south-west, the North Pennines along the eastern border (a designated national ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/w/cumbria-wp/gctw-cumbria-mountains-lakes-and-the-edge-of-england.mp3 0:06 2 full Cumbria: Roman Wall, Norse Settlers, Border Country https://qualla.com/cumbria/ Hadrian's Wall crosses northern Cumbria, marking what was once the edge of the Roman world. Before the Romans, the region was the territory of the Brigantes and a sub-tribe called the Carvetii; after Rome withdrew, it was contested by the Brittonic kingdom of Strathclyde and the ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/w/cumbria-wp/gctw-cumbria-roman-wall-norse-settlers-border-country.mp3 0:06 3 full Cumbria: The Poets Who Discovered the Lakes https://qualla.com/cumbria/ In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Cumbria became the place where English Romanticism learned to look at landscape. William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1770. His friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge moved to Keswick. The Lake Poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robert Sout...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/w/cumbria-wp/gctw-cumbria-the-poets-who-discovered-the-lakes.mp3 0:06 4 full Cumbria: Iron, Shipbuilding, and One Bad Day in 1957 https://qualla.com/cumbria/ Industry came to Cumbria, but unevenly. Barrow-in-Furness, on the south coast, grew into a major shipbuilding centre and still builds Britain's nuclear submarines. Workington, Millom, and the west coast towns developed iron and steel mills during the 19th-century boom. Kendal, Ke...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/w/cumbria-wp/gctw-cumbria-iron-shipbuilding-and-one-bad-day-in-1957.mp3 0:06 5 full Cumbria: Made and Remade https://qualla.com/cumbria/ Modern Cumbria is itself a recent invention. The current county was assembled in 1974 from the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, the Furness area of Lancashire, and the Sedbergh district of Yorkshire. Cumbria County Council and its six district councils were abolis...

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