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- The year 2001 proved to be a terrible year for Cumbria because of the Foot and Mouth Crisis, suffering 893 confirmed cases of the disease out of a total of 2030 cases in the UK. The effects of some 10 months of this crisis on some businesses was immense, and many rural pubs, B&B's and other tourist related shops closed for ever due to little income during 2001. See more information about Foot and mouth disease.
- Cumberland sausages - local food product
- Herdwick sheep - the local fell sheep, gives some of the best lamb meat available
- The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment, near Carlisle, was opened in the late 1950s as a test area for the British Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) - Blue Streak
- Cumbria is one of the few places in England where you can still find the Red squirrel, the Osprey, the Hen harrier, and the Golden eagle
- Center Parcs - operators of the Whinfell Forest Oasis holiday village near Penrith
- Depleted uranium - in the Solway Firth from weapons testing (at Eskmeals and Dundrennan Range) and weapons dumping
- Jennings Brewery - in Cockermouth
- Musical Stones of Skiddaw at the Museum in Keswick
- The Luck of Edenhall - a legendary drinking glass
- Dykes - Cumbrian surname
- Kendal Mint Cake
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