History of Westmorland

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

Roman fort near Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom