The Humour To Be Found In A Cumbrian Name
Local (to the author) place names, accent and dialect for your edification and amusement
Welcome to Cumbria.
This is the true North-West of England, the whole huge area filled with lakes, fells, rivers, sheep…affluent South Lakes tourist traps, impoverished urban areas on the west coast, the travesty which is the nuclear processing plant…and more sheep. There’s rather a lot of sheep, ok? This is the part of England which sits between Manchester/Liverpool (or Preston/Lancaster, depending on how far your knowledge stretches) and the Scottish border.
Some place names in this county are like little history lessons — some of them are also just a bit funny, particularly to those who don’t live round here….
“Despite the modern county being created only in 1974 from the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and north Lancashire and parts of Yorkshire, Cumbria is an ancient division. Before the arrival of the Romans the area was the home of the Carvetii tribe, which was later assimilated to the larger Brigantes tribe. These people would have…
