Major Employers
- Cumbria County Council
- BAE Systems Submarine Solutions, once Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, and Vickers - in Barrow-in-Furness
- BNFL - British Nuclear Fuels - owners and operators of the Nuclear reprocessing site - at Sellafield, and the world's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, now closed.
- McVitie's part of United Biscuits - the UK's second largest biscuit factory in Carlisle
- Corus Group, previously British Steel - makers of railway lines in Workington - closed down Summer 2006.
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