List of Cumbria-related Topics - Other Pages of Interest

Other Pages of Interest

• 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