Cumbria County History Trust: Your Online Resource for the History of Cumbria

This site contains a page for every one of the 348 parishes and townships within Cumbria. You can access the place you are interested in via our Interactive Map.  But there's much more to the county than that - scroll down this page to see one of more than 100 Interesting Facts we have posted to the site - or click here to find out more about different aspects of the history of the county: or here to look at some of the old maps, old prints and other images in our Gallery

If you would like to help our work with a donation, there's a Donate button, below.  Or go to our Support Us page to learn more about Membership or becoming a Friend of CCHT, or a Volunteer

NEWS! Our long awaited first Red Book, Lonsdale Ward, has been published. This is the first instalment in the Victoria County History of Westmorland, and covers the 13 townships of Lonsdale Ward from prehistory to the near present. As well as being the first Victoria County History publication for the historic county of Westmorland, this landmark volume is the 250th volume in the national Red Book series. You can purchase your copy here: Victoria County History of Westmorland I - Boydell and Brewer To mark the book's launch, a special discount of 25% has been arranged by the publisher when using the code BB132. The code is active until 10th October.