Westmorland

Westmoreland County Map (source: Wikipedia)

Westmorland

County town: Appleby

Other major towns: Kendal

Way up in the north west of England, Westmorland forms a main part of Lake District National Park. In the greater part hilly, much of Westmoreland is unspoiled. Copper was mined from the western mountains, slate and limestone were quarried, along with marble which is fashioned into chimney-pieces, ornaments etc.

Samuel Coleridge lived at Keswick.

Also see Cumberland page

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Links

• Cumbria Record Office

Local History Society

• Cumbria FHS

OPC

Archives

• IGI Westmoreland

• 1787 Census Index

• 1851 Census for Cumberland & Westmoreland

• Parish Records for Milnthorpe

• Westmorland Papers

• Principal Inhabitants of Cumberland and Westmoreland 1829

• Parish records for Witherslack

• North Westmoreland Window Tax 1777

Family and Social History

• Westmoreland Workhouses

Maps & Photographs

• Frith Pictures

• Town and Village Maps

• Images of Cumbria

Countywide Interest

• General Information

• Eden Valley in Cumbria - Cumberland and Westmorland

• Cumbrian Genealogy

• Cumbria/Cumberland/Westmorland Genealogy Links

• North Pennine Ancestors

• Westmoreland County Genealogy Project

Specific Town Village Interest

• Kirkby Stephen

• Maulds Meaburn

• Patterdale Includes some Parish Records

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