Cumbria
About Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north; the English ceremonial counties of Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, and Lancashire to the south; and the Irish Sea to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Carlisle.
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In 2015 an artist took the top of Scafell Pike, a piece of rock about an inch square, for an exhibition called The Intruder about how humans impose their categories on nature.
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More facts about Cumbria
The first pencils came from graphite that shepherds found turfed up by a storm, which they used to mark their sheep, and the earliest pencils were just lumps of graphite wrapped in sheepskin.
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Coordinates: 54.5000, -3.2500