Cumbria County History Trust

Edited versions of these histories can be found on each place page of on the CCHT website and have been published as a book, Cumbria: An Historical Gazetteer.

Our first VCH parish history was published in March 2018 and covers the three fellside villages of Kirkowald, Staffield and Renwick.

See Richard Brockington and Sarah Rose, The Victoria History of Cumberland: Kirkoswald and Renwick (University of London, 2019).

[9] Each place page contains links to a number of place-specific sources, including the most relevant papers in the CWAAS Transactions.

There is a range of images available for download from the Gallery, including images taken from: All the work on the Victoria County History of Cumbria project is being done by volunteers, under the overall direction of Dr Fiona Edmonds Director of the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University and with volunteer guidance and support provided by Dr Sarah Rose, assistant editor.

Ortelius Cumbria Map