About us & what we do
The Cumbria County History Trust was launched in May 2010 to coordinate and gather resources for the Victoria County History of Cumbria project, a collaborative community project created to research and write the histories of all parts of Cumbria, and to make historical information generally available, within the framework and standards of the Victoria County History of England.
Our aim is to initiate a step-change in the awareness and understanding of Cumbria’s local historical heritage, by harnessing the enthusiasm for local history which exists widely across Cumbria, and pooling expertise with a view to eventually producing histories of every parish and township in Cumbria.
As work progresses, this website will become a major online resource for the history of Cumbria, and completed articles and township histories will be published here.
Interactive Map
Click on the map to find out more about the histories of individual places.