Westmorland

The Victoria County History of Westmorland

We have yet to publish a set of dedicated Westmorland volumes.

VCH Cumbria

Work on the VCH in Westmorland is carried out by the Cumbria County History Trust under the direction of Dr Fiona Edmonds with volunteer guidance and support by Dr Sarah Rose, both of the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University.

The Cumbria County History Trust has been established as a registered charity to raise funds and volunteer resources for the work, and to provide the community focus for the project. 

No town or village histories had been published for the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland before the VCH Cumbria project was launched in 2010; the only parts of Cumbria previously to have been researched in detail by the VCH were the Furness and Cartmel areas, which were formerly in Lancashire and are covered in VCH Lancashire, Volume VIII (1910).  The VCH Cumbria project is using the Civil Parishes as they existed around 1900 as the basis for dividing the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland into units for the preparation of articles. 

Read draft histories of all Cumbrian townships.