History of Cumberland

thumb|The River Eden, Cumbria|Eden Valley is thought by some to have been the heartland of the kingdom of Rheged. Rheged () was one of the kingdoms of the ('Old North'), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages. It is recorded in several poetic and bardic sources, although its borders are not described in any of them. Archaeological work from 2012 onwards on a site in Galloway in Scotland is interpreted by the excavators as showing that it is a royal centre of Rheged. Rheged possibly extended into Lanca

96-mile long border between England and Scotland

cross in Gosforth, Cumbria, England, UK

battle, according to the Annales Cambriae, in 573

Roman fort in Cumbria, England

1986 Type 22 frigate

Roman fort and settlement on the site of present-day Maryport in Cumbria, England, UK

raiders from late 1200s to the beginning of the 1600s along the Anglo-Scottish border