Furness
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Furness is a peninsula and region of Cumbria, England. Together with the Cartmel Peninsula it forms North Lonsdale, historically an exclave of Lancashire. On 1 April 2023 it became part of the new unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness.
View from the slopes of Dow Crag in the Coniston Fells.
The ruins of Furness Abbey, just north of Barrow
Barrow Island in 1890
Jubilee Bridge, linking Barrow Island and Walney Island
Cumbria
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Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Carlisle.
Image: Derwent Water, Lake District, Cumbria June 2009
Image: The Citadel, Court Square, Carlisle, Cumbria 02
Image: St Bees south head (Tomlin)
The Castlerigg stone circle dates from the late Neolithic age and was constructed by some of the earliest inhabitants of Cumbria