Cumbria Tourism - Travel to Cumbria
Cumbria is a county in the North West of England also known as the Lake District.
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Cities in Cumbria
- Bowness-on-Windermere
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Carlisle
- Kendal
- Keswick
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- Penrith
- Whitehaven
- Windermere
- Workington
Other destinations - Travel to Cumbria
- The Lakes - Bowness, Windermere, Coniston, Ullswater, Grasmere, Hawkshead, Keswick, Pooley Bridge, Borrowdale, Waterhead and Ambleside. Proposed World Heritage site.
- Hadrian's Wall - North of Carlisle, on the border with Scotland. An 80-mile long wall built by the Roman Governor Hadrian to keep the Scottish tribes out. A World Heritage site.
- The Pennines - the northern section of the range of hills that divides Northern England
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Get into Cumbria
By road: Motorway M6 from Birmingham. Connects to Lancaster (S of main Lake District but good urban centre), Kendal (main town in SE of Lakes, convenient for Windermere, Coniston etc.), Penrith (in N centre of Lakes) and Carlisle (N of main Lake District but good urban centre). For Barrow and W coast, take A590 from junction 36. The motorway also provides access to the W side of the Pennines, and, from Carlisle, to Hadrian's Wall and to the NE corner of EnglandBy rail: Railway runs to Lancaster (with branch to Grange-Over-Sands and Barrow), Oxenholme (branch to Kendal & Windermere), Shap (very high, very cold, no houses) & Carlisle.
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