Westmorland County
(Historic)

Map Reference: (54.562271, -2.490025)

Westmorland is a mountainous county in the north-west of England. Many of the Lake District's greatest treasures lie within its borders, including the famous fells of Helvellyn, Bow Fell and Nethermost Pike; the great lakes of Windermere, Ullswater, Grasmere and Rydal Water; and the towns of Ambleside and Bowness-on-Windermere. To the east of Lakeland, separated from it by the valley of the Birk Beck and the Lune Gorge, are the Westmorland Dales, a remote and beautiful pastoral landscape with many stone circles and ancient monuments. In the north-west of the county, the Vale of Eden forms a broad, green vale between the Westmorland Dales and the Pennines, conveying its pretty river through Kirkby Stephen and the county town of Appleby. The south of the county is relatively low lying, including the valleys of the rivers Kent and Lune. Westmorland has a short coastline with Morecambe Bay, around the Kent estuary.