Wildzone Regions
Cumbria has the second lowest population density amongst English counties and is a largely rural county with three Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Arnside and Silverdale (straddling the boundary with Lancashire), North Pennines and Solway Coast.
There are numerous nature reserves within Cumbria, which is divided into six districts - the Borough of Barrow in Furness, the Boroughs of Copeland and Allerdale which form the Western Lake District; the District of Eden, the District of South Lakeland (covering the Furness Peninsula, the central Lake District, Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale and the area as far east as Sedbergh) and the City of Carlisle, in our magnificent Hadrian's Wall Country.
The most westerly point in Cumbria is St Bees Head, while the most easterly is Kirkby Stephen. The county is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the North, by County Durham and Northumberland in the East and by Lancashire in the South, where it shares the magnificent Morecambe Bay with its Red Rose neighbour. The county’s Irish Sea coastline stretches from Silloth-on-Solway in the North to Grange-over-Sands in the south.
The county has a rich and varied bio-diversity, which boasts rare and protected species, fabulous flora and forests and our indisputably iconic creatures - red squirrels, red deer, ospreys, golden eagles and otters - which put the wow into our substantial wealth of wildlife.